Erythrotherium
No picture of Erythrotherium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Erythrotherium itself, so it was not used. 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 Erythrotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MammaliaPBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia
Time the record covers
At most 8.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Erythrotherium on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
2 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
- Elliot Formation · Stormberg Group1
- Elliot Formation · Stormberg Group1
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The named rock units Erythrotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Erythrotherium and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Erythrotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Massospondylus2 sites
- Megazostrodon1 site
- Ornithischia1 site
- Pseudosuchia1 site
- Tritylodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Erythrotherium, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
2 references- Fossils from the Elliot and Clarens Formations (Karoo Sequence) of the northeastern Cape, Orange Free State and Lesotho, and a suggested biozonation based on tetrapods1
- A preliminary description of a new mammal from the Upper Triassic of South Africa1
Each of the 2 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.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Erythrotherium was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Erythrotherium itself, so it was not used.
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 Erythrotherium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Erythrotherium was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itMammalia through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crompton 1964