Prestosuchus chiniquensis

Prestosuchus chiniquensis

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PrestosuchusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 46 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 9 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 3 of 9 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–229 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247.9 Mya200.5 Mya

9 occurrences of Prestosuchus chiniquensis on record, most of them in the Middle 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

9 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

  • Santa Maria Formation · Rosário do Sul GroupRio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande Do Sul · BR · 247–201.4 Mya8
Santa Maria — 29.67°S, 54.37°WSanta Maria — 29.83°S, 52.83°WSanta Maria — 29.61°S, 53.37°W

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The named rock units Prestosuchus chiniquensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Prestosuchus chiniquensis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Prestosuchus chiniquensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Prestosuchus chiniquensis, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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 content2

Picture of Prestosuchus chiniquensis

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPrestosuchus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huene 1942