Eosauropus
No picture of Eosauropus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eosauropus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SauropodomorphaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
20 occurrences of Eosauropus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
20 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
8 formations
- Wingate Sandstone Formation · Glen Canyon Group8
- Sloan Canyon Formation · Chinle Group3
- Fleming Fjord Formation1
- Montemarcello Formation1
- Popo Agie Formation1
- Chinle Formation1
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The named rock units Eosauropus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eosauropus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Eosauropus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Grallator7 sites
- Brachychirotherium6 sites
- Grallator cursorius4 sites
- Anchisauripus3 sites
- Pseudotetrasauropus3 sites
- Rhynchosauroides3 sites
- Acanthichnus2 sites
- Anomoepus2 sites
- Apatopus2 sites
- Chirotheriidae2 sites
- Evazoum2 sites
- Kouphichnium2 sites
- Scoyenia2 sites
- Anomoepodidae1 site
- Chirotherium1 site
- Coelurosaurichnus1 site
- Decapoda1 site
- Eubrontes1 site
- Eubrontes sillimani1 site
- Evazoum sirigui1 site
- Grallator tenuis1 site
- Isopodichnus1 site
- Mammalia1 site
- Pentasauropus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Eosauropus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
7 references- Eosauropus, a new name for a Late Triassic track: further observations on the Late Triassic ichnogenus Tetrasauropus and related forms, with notes on the limits of interpretation7
- Biostratigraphic significance of tetrapod footprints from the Triassic-Jurassic Wingate Sandstone on the Colorado Plateau6
- A zone of sauropodomorph footprints in the basal Wingate Sandstone (latest Triassic) of western Colorado and eastern Utah: is Eosauropus a common ichnogenus in the region?3
- Late Triassic sauropodomorph and Middle Jurassic theropod tracks from the Xichang Basin, Sichuan Province, southwestern China: First report of the ichnogenus Carmelopodus1
- Sauropodomorph dinosaur trackways from the Fleming Fjord Formation of East Greenland: evidence for Late Triassic sauropods1
- A Grallator-dominated tracksite from the Chinle Group (Late Triassic), Moab, Utah1
- Late Triassic tetrapod tracks of western North America1
Each of the 20 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Eosauropus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Eosauropus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eosauropus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSauropodomorpha through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lockley et al. 2006