Ornithosuchus woodwardi
No picture of Ornithosuchus woodwardi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ornithosuchus woodwardi 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 Ornithosuchus woodwardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OrnithosuchusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ornithosuchus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ornithosuchus woodwardi 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Ornithosuchus woodwardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ornithosuchus woodwardi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Ornithosuchus woodwardi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Hyperodapedon gordoni2 sites
- Brachyrhinodon taylori1 site
- Erpetosuchus granti1 site
- Leptopleuron lacertinum1 site
- Pseudosuchia1 site
- Saltopus elginensis1 site
- Scleromochlus taylori1 site
- Stagonolepis robertsoni1 site
- Thecodontia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ornithosuchus woodwardi, 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- On the South African pseudosuchian Euparkeria and allied genera1
- Reptiles from the Elgin Sandstone. — Description of two new genera1
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. 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 Ornithosuchus woodwardi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ornithosuchus woodwardi 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 Ornithosuchus woodwardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ornithosuchus woodwardi 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 itOrnithosuchus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newton 1894