Metoposaurus diagnosticus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 11 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 11 of 11 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 11 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 1 occurrence235–234 Mya — about 1 occurrence234–233 Mya — about 1 occurrence233–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–228 Mya — about 1 occurrence228–227 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227.3 Mya205.7 Mya237.7 Mya200.7 Mya

11 occurrences of Metoposaurus diagnosticus 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

11 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

5 formations

Hassberge — 49.84°N, 10.48°EStuttgart — 48.80°N, 9.17°EStuttgart — 48.86°N, 9.39°EStuttgart — 49.13°N, 9.26°EWeser — 49.03°N, 9.30°EWeser — 48.88°N, 9.57°EGrès à Avicula contorta — 48.62°N, 6.33°ERaibl — 46.57°N, 11.67°E

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

Metoposaurus diagnosticus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Metoposaurus diagnosticus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Metoposaurus diagnosticus, 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

8 references

Each of the 11 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 content0

No picture of Metoposaurus diagnosticus 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 Metoposaurus diagnosticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metoposaurus diagnosticus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMetoposaurus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meyer 1842)