Neusticosaurus edwardsi

Neusticosaurus edwardsi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeusticosaurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB, for Sauropterygia

Time the record covers

At most 2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 241.464 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Triassic243–243 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243.93 Mya240.96 Mya

1 occurrence of Neusticosaurus edwardsi 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

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

Besano — 45.89°N, 8.90°E

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

Neusticosaurus edwardsi and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Neusticosaurus edwardsi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Neusticosaurus edwardsi, 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

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Neusticosaurus edwardsi

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GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Neusticosaurus edwardsi 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sander 1989)