Parotosuchus nasutus

Parotosuchus nasutus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParotosuchusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 1.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 248.6 Mya and 247 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 1 occurrence249–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249.1 Mya246.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Parotosuchus nasutus on record, most of them in the Early 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

1 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

  • Solling Formation · Middle Buntsandstein GroupSachsen-Anhalt · DE · 248.6–247 Mya1
Solling — 51.80°N, 11.71°E

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

Parotosuchus nasutus and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Parotosuchus nasutus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Parotosuchus nasutus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Parotosuchus nasutus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Parotosuchus nasutus 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 itParotosuchus through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Meyer 1858)