Lewisuchus admixtus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LewisuchusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, gregariousPBDB, for Ornithischia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ornithischia
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Ornithischia
Time the record covers
At most 170 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Lewisuchus admixtus 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
4 occurrences- Middle Triassic61%
- Late Triassic20%
- Early Jurassic4%
- Middle Jurassic2%
- Late Jurassic3%
- Early Cretaceous6%
- Late Cretaceous4%
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
- Chañares Formation · Agua de la Peña Group4
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The named rock units Lewisuchus admixtus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Lewisuchus admixtus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Lewisuchus admixtus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Lagerpeton chanarensis3 sites
- Massetognathus pascuali2 sites
- Tarjadia ruthae2 sites
- Tropidosuchus romeri2 sites
- Chanaresuchus1 site
- Chanaresuchus bonapartei1 site
- Chiniquodon theotonicus1 site
- Dinodontosaurus1 site
- Dinodontosaurus brevirostris1 site
- Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum1 site
- Gualosuchus reigi1 site
- Lagosuchus1 site
- Luperosuchus fractus1 site
- Marasuchus lilloensis1 site
- Probainognathus jenseni1 site
- Proterochampsidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Lewisuchus admixtus, 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
4 references- New specimen sheds light on the anatomy and taxonomy of the early Late Triassic dinosauriforms from the Chañares Formation, NW Argentina1
- Paleoenvironment and taphonomy of the Chanares Formation tetrapod assemblage (Middle Triassic), northwestern Argentina: spectacular preservation in volcanogenic concretions1
- Un nuevo Lagosuchidae (Thecodontia-Pseudosuchia) de la fauna de Los Chañares (Edad Reptil Chañarense, Triasico Medio), La Rioja, Argentina [A new Lagosuchidae (Thecodontia-Pseudosuchia) from Los Chañares fauna (Chanarian Reptile Age, Middle Triassic), La Rioja Province, Argentina]1
- The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna; XIV, Lewisuchus admixtus, gen. et sp. nov., a further thecodont from the Chañares beds1
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 Lewisuchus admixtus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Lewisuchus admixtus 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. Romer 1972