Isochirotherium

Welles, S.P. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- ChirotheriidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At least 5.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 247 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
48 occurrences of Isochirotherium 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
48 occurrencesThese 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
16 formations
- Auchenhew Mudstone Formation · Mercia Mudstone Group12
- Grès d'Antully Formation5
- Moenkopi Formation3
- Wióry Formation2
- Baranów Formation2
- Tarporley Siltstone Formation · Mercia Mudstone Group2
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The named rock units Isochirotherium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Isochirotherium and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Isochirotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
106 taxa- Chirotherium barthii14 sites
- Chirotherium ferox8 sites
- Rhynchosauroides8 sites
- Brachychirotherium7 sites
- Synaptichnium7 sites
- Anchisauripus bibractensis6 sites
- Rhynchosauroides petri5 sites
- Rotodactylus5 sites
- Brachychirotherium circaparvum4 sites
- Brachychirotherium parvum4 sites
- Chirotheriidae4 sites
- Chirotherium4 sites
- Coelurosaurichnus4 sites
- Brachychirotherium pachydactylum3 sites
- Chirotherium rex3 sites
- Phalangichnus3 sites
- Procolophonichnium3 sites
- Rotodactylus rati3 sites
- Synaptichnium diabloensis3 sites
- Anchisauripus2 sites
- Archosauria2 sites
- Chirotherium sickleri2 sites
- Coelurosaurichnus largentierensis2 sites
- Coelurosaurichnus perriauxi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 41 sites for Isochirotherium, 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
23 references- New discoveries of <i> Isochirotherium herculis</i> (Egerton 1838) and a reassessment of chirotheriid footprints from the Triassic of the Isle of Arran, Scotland12
- Empreintes de Pas de Vertébrés du Trias de la Bordure Nord-Est du Massif Central (Vertebrate Footprints from the Triassic of the Northeast Border of the Massif Central]4
- A Revised Systematic Ichnotaxonomy and Review of the Vertebrate Footprint Ichnofamily Chirotheriidae from the British Triassic3
- Reptile and amphibian trackways from the Lower Triassic Moenkopi formation of Arizona and Utah3
- Archosauriform footprints in the Lower Triassic of Western Alps and their role in understanding the effects of the Permian-Triassic hyperthermal2
- Footprints pull origin and diversification of dinosaur stem lineage deep into Early Triassic2
- First occurrence of a Middle Triassic tetrapod ichnofauna from the Argana Basin (Western High Atlas, Morocco)2
- Les pistes dinosauroïds du Trias moyen français: interprétation et réévaluation de la nomenclature [The French Middle Triassic dinosauroid trackways: interpretation and nomenclatural reevaluation]2
- The Tracks of Triassic Vertebrates: Fossil Evidence from North-West England2
- Palichnologie: interprétation paléoécologique de traces d'origine biologique et mécanique observées dans la carrière triasique de Pont d'Argent (Saône-et-Loire, France). Conclusions générales à l'étude du gisement fossilifère [Palichnology: paleoecological interpretation of traces of biological and mechanical origin observed in the Triassic Pont d'Argent Quarry, Saône-et-Loire, France. General conclusions from the study of the fossiliferous deposit]2
- Une ichnofaune reptiliene remarquable dans les grès triasiques de Largentière (Ardèche, France) [A remarkable reptilian ichnofauna from the Triassic sandstones of Largentière (Ardèche, France)]2
- Middle Triassic Pentasauropus-dominated ichnofauna from western T Gondwana: Ichnotaxonomy, palaeoenvironment, biostratigraphy and palaeobiogeography1
Each of the 48 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Isochirotherium
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Welles, S.P.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Isochirotherium 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 itChirotheriidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haubold 1971