Otischalkia elderae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OtischalkiaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Rhynchosauria
- 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.
3 occurrences of Otischalkia elderae 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
3 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
2 formations
- Colorado City Formation · Dockum Group2
- Tecovas Formation · Dockum Group1
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The named rock units Otischalkia elderae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Otischalkia elderae and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Otischalkia elderae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Anaschisma browni3 sites
- Mystriosuchinae2 sites
- Parasuchus bransoni2 sites
- Trilophosaurus buettneri2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Aetosauria1 site
- Almasauridae1 site
- Apachesaurus gregorii1 site
- Archosauriformes1 site
- Archosauromorpha1 site
- Arganodus1 site
- Coelacanthidae1 site
- Doswellia1 site
- Hybodontiformes1 site
- Lissodus1 site
- Longosuchus meadei1 site
- Lucasuchus hunti1 site
- Metoposauridae1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Palaeoniscidae1 site
- Phytosauria1 site
- Poposaurus langstoni1 site
- Postosuchus kirkpatricki1 site
- Prolacertiformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Otischalkia elderae, 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
2 references- A new rhynchosaur from the Upper Triassic of West Texas, and the biochronology of Late Triassic rhynchosaurs2
- Rotten Hill: A Late Triassic bonebed in the Texas Panhandle, USA1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Otischalkia elderae 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 Otischalkia elderae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Otischalkia elderae 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 itOtischalkia through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hunt and Lucas 1991