Rhynchosauroides

Rhynchosauroides

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
LacertoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 158 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.902 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Permian — about 6 of 131 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 25 of 131 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 48 of 131 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 51 of 131 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 131 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 131 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 131 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 131 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 131 occurrences263–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–251 Mya — about 6 occurrences251–246 Mya — about 35 occurrences246–240 Mya — about 30 occurrences240–234 Mya — about 9 occurrences234–228 Mya — about 6 occurrences228–222 Mya — about 9 occurrences222–216 Mya — about 9 occurrences216–210 Mya — about 9 occurrences210–204 Mya — about 9 occurrences204–198 Mya — about 4 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences92–86 Mya — about 1 occurrence251.902 Mya93.9 Mya263 Mya86 Mya

131 occurrences of Rhynchosauroides 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

131 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

44 formations

Passaic — 40.57°N, 75.10°WPassaic — 40.22°N, 75.43°WPassaic — 40.29°N, 75.80°WPassaic — 40.26°N, 75.73°WPassaic — 40.27°N, 75.86°WPassaic — 40.24°N, 75.59°WTimezgadiouine — 31.07°N, 8.97°WTimezgadiouine — 30.82°N, 9.09°WTimezgadiouine — 31.05°N, 8.98°WGrès d'Antully — 46.84°N, 4.43°EGrès d'Antully — 46.90°N, 4.42°EGrès d'Antully — 46.61°N, 4.48°EChinle — 38.65°N, 108.91°WChinle — 38.00°N, 111.13°WChinle — 34.83°N, 109.82°WChinle — 34.81°N, 109.88°WChinle — 34.94°N, 109.76°WGrès Inférieurs du Lyonnais — 45.25°N, 5.32°EGrès Inférieurs du Lyonnais — 45.88°N, 4.80°EMoenkopi — 34.94°N, 110.30°WMoenkopi — 35.91°N, 111.48°WMoenkopi — 37.17°N, 112.00°WMoenkopi — 35.04°N, 111.03°WMoenkopi — 37.43°N, 113.13°WMoenkopi — 37.81°N, 110.43°WRed Peak — 43.42°N, 106.93°WRed Peak — 43.33°N, 107.12°WRed Peak — 43.28°N, 107.18°WRed Peak — 43.67°N, 108.03°WRed Peak — 43.47°N, 107.80°WArenarie de Val Gardena — 46.37°N, 11.42°ESloan Canyon — 36.89°N, 103.35°WSloan Canyon — 36.85°N, 103.11°WSloan Canyon — 36.94°N, 103.15°WHelsby Sandstone — 53.34°N, 2.63°WHelsby Sandstone — 53.38°N, 3.05°WHelsby Sandstone — 53.28°N, 2.24°WOrmskirk Sandstone — 53.38°N, 3.23°WLockatong — 40.15°N, 75.46°WLockatong — 40.45°N, 75.06°WRedonda — 34.98°N, 103.64°WRedonda — 34.95°N, 103.43°WTarporley Siltstone — 52.81°N, 2.70°WQuarziti di Monte Serra — 43.74°N, 10.49°EAbu Agag — 23.46°N, 33.02°EAbu Agag — 23.50°N, 33.06°EWióry — 50.96°N, 21.20°EBaranów — 51.03°N, 20.87°EChester Pebble Beds — 52.39°N, 2.18°WChirotheriensandstein — 50.43°N, 10.78°EGrès Inférieurs du Roubreau — 44.53°N, 4.29°EGrès Inférieurs du Roubreau — 44.60°N, 4.34°EGettysburg — 40.15°N, 76.75°WWolfville — 45.20°N, 64.62°WStockton — 41.14°N, 73.91°W

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The named rock units Rhynchosauroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 13 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchosauroides and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Rhynchosauroides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

234 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 107 sites for Rhynchosauroides, 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

69 references

Each of the 131 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. 57 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 content2

Picture of Rhynchosauroides

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
bslibeck
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itLacertoidea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maidwell 1911