Metamosaurus fossatus

No picture of Metamosaurus fossatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Metamosaurus fossatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetamosaurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 6.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 283.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Permian — about 1 of 1 occurrencePermian290–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–288 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences290.6 Mya282.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Metamosaurus fossatus 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

1 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

1 formation

Clyde — 33.77°N, 99.10°W

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

Metamosaurus fossatus and its relatives

Permian

Where Metamosaurus fossatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Metamosaurus fossatus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

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No picture of Metamosaurus fossatus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Metamosaurus fossatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metamosaurus fossatus 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 itMetamosaurus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1878