Pachypleurosauroidea

Pachypleurosauroidea

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 7.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 237 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 2 of 58 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 56 of 58 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 58 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 4 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 3 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 3 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 3 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 4 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 4 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 4 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 4 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences247 Mya239.48 Mya251.3 Mya236.5 Mya

58 occurrences of Pachypleurosauroidea 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

58 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

26 formations

Besano — 45.91°N, 8.94°EFalang — 25.20°N, 105.01°EFalang — 25.08°N, 104.67°EFalang — 25.16°N, 104.79°EGuanling — 24.78°N, 104.33°EGuanling — 25.48°N, 104.85°EGuanling — 24.90°N, 104.20°EGuanling — 24.88°N, 104.31°ECassina — 45.91°N, 8.95°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.73°EVossenveld — 51.97°N, 6.78°EJialingjiang — 28.68°N, 115.85°EJialingjiang — 31.05°N, 111.63°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°EJena — 51.22°N, 11.77°EMonte San Giorgio bituminous shales — 45.15°N, 9.23°ECalcare di Meride — 45.98°N, 8.97°EErfurt — 49.21°N, 9.68°EMeride — 45.89°N, 8.94°EPerledo-Varenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°EJilh — 26.39°N, 44.24°EStrelovec — 46.33°N, 14.59°ELower Meride Limestone — 45.90°N, 8.93°EKarchowice — 50.58°N, 18.17°EChorzow — 50.58°N, 17.63°EMeride — 45.88°N, 8.90°EPartnach — 46.66°N, 13.74°EGejiu — 24.98°N, 104.49°EGutenstein — 48.99°N, 19.59°EMeride Limestone — 45.91°N, 8.95°EProsanto — 46.63°N, 9.75°E

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The named rock units Pachypleurosauroidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachypleurosauroidea and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Pachypleurosauroidea and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

244 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Pachypleurosauroidea, 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

36 references

Each of the 58 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Pachypleurosauroidea

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pachypleurosauroidea 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.

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What may have been alongside itEosauropterygia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huene 1956