Marasuchus lilloensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarasuchusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
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.
2 occurrences of Marasuchus lilloensis 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- Middle Triassic51%
- Late Triassic11%
- Early Jurassic8%
- Middle Jurassic4%
- Late Jurassic6%
- Early Cretaceous13%
- Late Cretaceous9%
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 Group2
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The named rock units Marasuchus lilloensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Marasuchus lilloensis and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Marasuchus lilloensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Luperosuchus fractus2 sites
- Massetognathus pascuali2 sites
- Chanaresuchus bonapartei1 site
- Chiniquodon1 site
- Chiniquodon theotonicus1 site
- Dinodontosaurus1 site
- Dinodontosaurus brevirostris1 site
- Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum1 site
- Gualosuchus reigi1 site
- Lagerpeton chanarensis1 site
- Lewisuchus admixtus1 site
- Probainognathus jenseni1 site
- Tarjadia ruthae1 site
- Tropidosuchus romeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Marasuchus lilloensis, 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
2 references- Paleoenvironment and taphonomy of the Chanares Formation tetrapod assemblage (Middle Triassic), northwestern Argentina: spectacular preservation in volcanogenic concretions1
- Dinosaurian precursors from the Middle Triassic of Argentina: Marasuchus lilloensis, gen. nov1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Laser scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Marasuchus lilloensis · NHMUK:PAL:PV R 14101
No picture of Marasuchus lilloensis was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Marasuchus lilloensis itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Marasuchus lilloensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMarasuchus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Romer 1972)