Protorosauridae

Protorosauridae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ProtorosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Protorosauria
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Protorosauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 13 occurrencesPermian — about 1 of 13 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 8 of 13 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 3 of 13 occurrencesLate Triassic301–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–249 Mya — about 6 occurrences249–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences236–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences214–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–207 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences207–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293.52 Mya227.3 Mya301 Mya204 Mya

13 occurrences of Protorosauridae 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

13 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

8 formations

Cooper Canyon — 33.00°N, 101.15°WCooper Canyon — 33.45°N, 101.44°WKopanaskya — 51.34°N, 55.72°EVokhma — 57.42°N, 45.08°EChorzow — 50.58°N, 17.63°EUsclas-Saint-Privas — 43.73°N, 3.31°EKamennyi Yar — 52.81°N, 51.70°EMaleri — 19.13°N, 79.67°EVokhminskaya — 57.88°N, 45.91°E

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The named rock units Protorosauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Protorosauridae and its relatives

Early Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

61 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Protorosauridae, 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

10 references

Each of the 13 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 content1

Picture of Protorosauridae

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

No 3D scan of Protorosauridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProtorosauria through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1871