Procerosuchus

Procerosuchus is an extinct genus of loricatan archosaur. Fossils have been collected from the Late Triassic Santa Maria Formation in Geopark of Paleorrota, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, which is Carnian in age. The genus was first described by the German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene in 1942.

Procerosuchus

LiterallyMiguel · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/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
PseudosuchiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pseudosuchia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At most 36 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Triassic242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242.2 Mya205 Mya

2 occurrences of Procerosuchus 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

2 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 — 29.67°S, 53.75°WSanta Maria — 29.67°S, 54.37°W

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

Procerosuchus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Procerosuchus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

3 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Procerosuchus, 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 2 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

Media content1

Picture of Procerosuchus

Credit
LiterallyMiguel
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Procerosuchus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPseudosuchia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

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