Psephosauriscus
No picture of Psephosauriscus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia 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 Psephosauriscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CyamodontoideaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Sauropterygia
Time the record covers
At least 1.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 237 Mya.
7 occurrences of Psephosauriscus 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
7 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Psephosauriscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Psephosauriscus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Psephosauriscus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Ramonalina beneckei2 sites
- Saurichthys2 sites
- Beneckeia1 site
- Beneckeia levantina1 site
- Ceratodus1 site
- Cyamodontoidea1 site
- Frechites1 site
- Germanonautilus1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Myalina1 site
- Myalina tommasii obtusa1 site
- Myophoria1 site
- Nothosauria1 site
- Nothosaurus giganteus1 site
- Paranautilus nodatus1 site
- Perleididae1 site
- Psephoderma1 site
- Sibyllonautilus pertumidus1 site
- Simosaurus1 site
- Stegocephali1 site
- Tanystropheus1 site
- Trigonodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Psephosauriscus, 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
5 references- The dermal armor of the cyamodontoid placodonts (Reptilia, Sauropterygia): morphology and systematic value2
- On some fragments of the dermal skeleton of Placodontia from the Trias of Araif en Naqa, Sinai Peninsula2
- A review of aquatic vertebrate remains from the Middle-Upper Triassic Jilh Formation of Saudi Arabia1
- New Aspects of Triassic Ammonoid Biostratigraphy, Paleoenvironments and Paleobiogeography in Southern Israel (Sepharadic Province)1
- Stratigraphical studies on the Triassic vertebrate fossils from Wadi Raman, Israel1
Each of the 7 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 content0
No picture of Psephosauriscus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
Wikipedia 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 Psephosauriscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itCyamodontoidea through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rieppel 2002