Macrotubus

No picture of Macrotubus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Macrotubus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 5 of 10 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 5 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic242–241 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence236–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237 Mya211.18 Mya242.2 Mya205 Mya

10 occurrences of Macrotubus 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

10 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

9 formations

Wetterstein — 47.42°N, 11.00°ETisovec Limestone — 47.63°N, 14.33°ECalcari — 39.80°N, 16.12°EWetterstein Limestone — 47.97°N, 20.50°EMisfah — 22.78°N, 57.83°ESciliar Dolomite — 46.42°N, 12.13°ESchlern Dolomite — 46.57°N, 13.30°EWengan/Cassian — 46.50°N, 11.73°EDachstein — 48.00°N, 16.42°E

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

Macrotubus and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

156 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Macrotubus, 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

9 references

Each of the 10 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

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No picture of Macrotubus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Macrotubus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Macrotubus 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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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fois and Gaetani 1981