Parasaurus geinitzi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParasaurusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Pareiasauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 5.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermian260–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260.4 Mya253.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Parasaurus geinitzi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

7 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

  • Werra Formation · Zechstein GroupHesse, Lower Saxony, Thuringia · DE · 259.857–254.14 Mya7
Werra — 51.26°N, 8.88°EWerra — 51.58°N, 10.62°EWerra — 50.68°N, 10.92°EWerra — 51.54°N, 10.87°EWerra — 51.00°N, 9.95°EWerra — 50.99°N, 9.93°E

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

Parasaurus geinitzi and its relatives

Permian

Where Parasaurus geinitzi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Parasaurus geinitzi, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 7 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

Media content0

No picture of Parasaurus geinitzi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Parasaurus geinitzi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. von Meyer 1857