Pentasauropus incredibilis

No picture of Pentasauropus incredibilis 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 Pentasauropus incredibilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesEarly Jurassic238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227.3 Mya199.5 Mya237.9 Mya192 Mya

6 occurrences of Pentasauropus incredibilis 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

6 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

3 formations

Elliot — 30.35°S, 27.60°EElliot — 30.22°S, 27.52°EMolteno — 30.37°S, 27.52°EMolteno — 29.34°S, 27.48°EClarens — 28.88°S, 28.05°E

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

Pentasauropus incredibilis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pentasauropus incredibilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pentasauropus incredibilis, 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

1 reference

Each of the 6 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

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No picture of Pentasauropus incredibilis 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 Pentasauropus incredibilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pentasauropus incredibilis 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 itPentasauropus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ellenberger 1970