Melosaurus uralensis

No picture of Melosaurus uralensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Melosaurus uralensis itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Melosaurus uralensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MelosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 277.3 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPermian277–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277.8 Mya263.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Melosaurus uralensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

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.

Melosaurus uralensis and its relatives

Permian

Where Melosaurus uralensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Melosaurus uralensis, 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

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Melosaurus uralensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Melosaurus uralensis itself, so it was not used.

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

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Melosaurus uralensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Melosaurus uralensis 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 itMelosaurus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meyer 1857