Navahopus
No picture of Navahopus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Navahopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlateosauridaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Navahopus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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
4 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
- Navajo Sandstone Formation · Glen Canyon Group3
- Aztec Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Navahopus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Navahopus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Navahopus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Grallator3 sites
- Brasilichnium2 sites
- Otozoum2 sites
- Anchisauripus1 site
- Anomoepus1 site
- Batrachopus1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Eubrontes1 site
- Kayentapus1 site
- Octopodichnus1 site
- Planolites1 site
- Pteraichnus1 site
- Skolithos1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Navahopus, 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
4 references- Tracking Early Jurassic dinosaurs across southwestern Utah and the Triassic-Jurassic transition1
- Crouching theropod and Navahopus sauropodomorph tracks from the Early Jurassic Navaho Sandstone of USA1
- Jurassic tracks in California1
- A prosauropod dinosaur trackway from the Navajo Sandstone (Lower Jurassic) of Arizona1
Each of the 4 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
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No picture of Navahopus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Navahopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Navahopus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPlateosauridae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baird 1980