Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi
No picture of Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlatyoposaurusPBDB
- 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 2.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 264.28 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi 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
3 occurrences- Permian100%
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
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The named rock units Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi and its relatives
PermianWhere Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Bashkirosaurus tcherdyncevi1 site
- Bashkyroleter bashkyricus1 site
- Belebey vegrandis1 site
- Dvinosaurus1 site
- Iratusaurus vorax1 site
- Melosaurus1 site
- Melosaurus uralensis1 site
- Phthinosaurus borissiaki1 site
- Platyoposaurus watsoni1 site
- Rhipaeosaurus1 site
- Rhipaeosaurus tricuspidens1 site
- Syodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi, 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
3 references- Podklass Ophiacomorpha1
- The Omo Group: Archives of the International Omo Research Expedition1
- Catalogue of Localities of Permian and Triassic Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Territiories of the USSR1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi itself, so it was not used.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Platyoposaurus stuckenbergi, 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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What may have been alongside itPlatyoposaurus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Trautschold 1884)