Massetognathus pascuali
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MassetognathusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Massetognathus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
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.
7 occurrences of Massetognathus pascuali 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
7 occurrences- Middle Triassic86%
- Late Triassic3%
- Early Jurassic2%
- Middle Jurassic1%
- Late Jurassic2%
- Early Cretaceous4%
- Late Cretaceous2%
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 Group7
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The named rock units Massetognathus pascuali has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Massetognathus pascuali and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Massetognathus pascuali and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Lagerpeton chanarensis2 sites
- Lewisuchus admixtus2 sites
- Luperosuchus fractus2 sites
- Marasuchus lilloensis2 sites
- Chanaresuchus1 site
- Chanaresuchus bonapartei1 site
- Chiniquodon1 site
- Chiniquodon theotonicus1 site
- Dinodontosaurus1 site
- Dinodontosaurus brevirostris1 site
- Gracilisuchus stipanicicorum1 site
- Gualosuchus reigi1 site
- Lagosuchus1 site
- Probainognathus jenseni1 site
- Proterochampsidae1 site
- Tarjadia ruthae1 site
- Tropidosuchus romeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Massetognathus pascuali, 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
5 references- The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. XVII. The Chañares gomphodonts2
- The Chañares (Argentina) Triassic reptile fauna. III. Two new gomphodonts, Massetognathus pascuali and M. teruggii2
- Paleoenvironment and taphonomy of the Chanares Formation tetrapod assemblage (Middle Triassic), northwestern Argentina: spectacular preservation in volcanogenic concretions1
- Catalogue of non-mammalian cynodonts in the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection of the Instituto Miguel Lillo, Universidad Nacional de Tucuman, with comments on species1
- Dinosaurian precursors from the Middle Triassic of Argentina: Lagerpeton chanarensis1
Each of the 7 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Massetognathus pascuali · nhmuk:pal:PV R 8430
No picture of Massetognathus pascuali 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 Massetognathus pascuali 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 Massetognathus pascuali, 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 itMassetognathus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1967