Langobardisaurus

Langobardisaurus is an extinct genus of tanystropheid archosauromorph reptile, with one valid species, L. pandolfii. Its fossils have been found in Italy and Austria, and it lived during the Late Triassic period, roughly 228 to 201 million years ago. Langobardisaurus was initially described in 1994, based on fossils from the Calcare di Zorzino Formation in Northern Italy. Fossils of the genus are also known from the Forni Dolostone of Northern Italy and the Seefeld Formation of Austria.

Langobardisaurus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
TanystropheidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 9.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 215.38 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 4 of 4 occurrencesLate Triassic216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215.9 Mya205.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Langobardisaurus 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

4 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

3 formations

Dolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.86°EDolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.59°EZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°ESeefelder Schichten — 47.32°N, 11.22°E

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

Langobardisaurus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Langobardisaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Langobardisaurus, 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Langobardisaurus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Langobardisaurus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTanystropheidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Renesto 1994