Helveticosaurus zollingeri

No picture of Helveticosaurus zollingeri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Helveticosaurus zollingeri 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 Helveticosaurus zollingeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HelveticosaurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 239.48 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 2 occurrencesMiddle Triassic243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243.93 Mya238.98 Mya

2 occurrences of Helveticosaurus zollingeri on record, most of them in the Middle 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

2 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

2 formations

San Salvatore — 45.86°N, 8.81°EBesano — 45.91°N, 8.95°E

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

Helveticosaurus zollingeri and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Helveticosaurus zollingeri and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Helveticosaurus zollingeri, 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

2 references

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

Media and terms

Media content1

Structured light scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Helveticosaurus zollingeri · pimuz:4352

No picture of Helveticosaurus zollingeri was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Helveticosaurus zollingeri 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 Helveticosaurus zollingeri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itHelveticosaurus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peyer 1955