Protosuchus richardsoni

No picture of Protosuchus richardsoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Protosuchus richardsoni itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protosuchus richardsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 6.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 205.7 Mya and 199.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–204 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–203 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–202 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206.2 Mya199 Mya

4 occurrences of Protosuchus richardsoni on record, most of them in the Late 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

4 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

Moenave — 35.78°N, 111.12°WMoenave — 36.00°N, 111.25°W

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

Protosuchus richardsoni and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Protosuchus richardsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Protosuchus richardsoni, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Protosuchus richardsoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Protosuchus richardsoni itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Protosuchus richardsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protosuchus richardsoni 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itProtosuchus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Brown 1933)