Gordonia traquairi

Gordonia traquairi

E. T. Newton · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GordoniaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 2.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 254.14 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254.64 Mya251.4 Mya

6 occurrences of Gordonia traquairi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

6 occurrences

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

1 formation

Cutties Hillock Sandstone — 57.66°N, 3.37°W

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The named rock units Gordonia traquairi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gordonia traquairi and its relatives

Permian

Where Gordonia traquairi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Gordonia traquairi, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 6 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gordonia traquairi

Credit
E. T. Newton
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gordonia traquairi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Newton 1893)