Pachystropheus rhaeticus
No picture of Pachystropheus rhaeticus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pachystropheus rhaeticus 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 Pachystropheus rhaeticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PachystropheusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 4.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pachystropheus rhaeticus 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
2 formations
- Westbury Formation · Penarth Group1
- Exter Formation1
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The named rock units Pachystropheus rhaeticus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pachystropheus rhaeticus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pachystropheus rhaeticus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Lissodus minimus2 sites
- Nemacanthus monilifer2 sites
- Birgeria acuminata1 site
- Ceratodus1 site
- Ceratodus latissimus1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Cyclotosaurus1 site
- Diapsida1 site
- Hybodontiformes1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Hybodus austiensis1 site
- Ichthyosauria1 site
- Lepagia gaumensis1 site
- Lissodus1 site
- Nemacanthus minor1 site
- Plesiosauria1 site
- Plesiosaurus1 site
- Plesiosaurus costatus1 site
- Polyacrodus cloacinus1 site
- Sargodon tomicus1 site
- Saurichthys1 site
- Shonisaurus1 site
- Temnospondyli1 site
- Theropoda1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pachystropheus rhaeticus, 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 large temnospondyl humerus from the Rhaetian (Late Triassic) of Bonenburg (Westphalia, Germany) and its implications for temnospondyl extinction1
- Benton and Spencer, 19951
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pachystropheus rhaeticus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pachystropheus rhaeticus 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 Pachystropheus rhaeticus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pachystropheus rhaeticus 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 itPachystropheus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Huene 1935