Procolophoninae

Procolophoninae is an extinct subfamily of procolophonid parareptiles from the late Early Triassic to the early Middle Triassic of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Europe and South America. Currently, the oldest-known procolophonine is Procolophon from the earliest Olenekian stage.

Procolophoninae

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 2.5 · 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
ProcolophonidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 11 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 241.464 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 0 of 36 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 35 of 36 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 36 occurrencesMiddle Triassic252–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence252–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 2 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 3 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences252.4 Mya241 Mya

36 occurrences of Procolophoninae 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

36 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

11 formations

Katberg — 32.11°S, 26.51°EKatberg — 32.29°S, 27.10°EKatberg — 31.60°S, 25.45°EKatberg — 30.50°S, 25.97°EKatberg — 32.00°S, 26.26°EKatberg — 30.59°S, 26.37°ESanga do Cabral — 29.62°S, 54.39°WSanga do Cabral — 29.83°S, 54.23°WSanga do Cabral — 29.62°S, 55.05°WFremouw — 85.22°S, 177.00°WFremouw — 85.22°S, 175.50°WFremouw — 85.13°S, 174.83°WFremouw — 85.05°S, 172.50°ECharkabozh — 65.45°N, 52.11°ECharkabozh — 69.28°N, 49.93°ELestanshor — 68.62°N, 62.72°EPizhmomezenskoi — 64.56°N, 48.78°EPizhmomezenskoi — 64.56°N, 48.05°EKzylsaiskaya — 52.35°N, 52.66°ELipovskaya — 49.26°N, 43.67°EAdmiralty — 75.18°N, 56.01°ENormandien — 28.27°S, 29.13°EBurgersdorp — 30.68°S, 26.70°E

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The named rock units Procolophoninae 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.

Procolophoninae and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Procolophoninae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Procolophoninae, 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

22 references

Each of the 36 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Procolophoninae

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Procolophoninae 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 itProcolophonidae through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nopcsa 1928