Rotodactylus

No picture of Rotodactylus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Rotodactylus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 153 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 93.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 89.8 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 4 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 28 of 35 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 35 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 35 occurrencesLate Cretaceous255–250 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences250–244 Mya — about 14 occurrences244–238 Mya — about 15 occurrences238–233 Mya — about 3 occurrences233–227 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences227–221 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences221–216 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences216–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–205 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–92 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences92–87 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences247 Mya93.9 Mya255 Mya87 Mya

35 occurrences of Rotodactylus 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

35 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

13 formations

Grès d'Antully — 46.84°N, 4.43°EGrès d'Antully — 46.90°N, 4.42°EGrès d'Antully — 46.61°N, 4.48°EMoenkopi — 35.04°N, 111.03°WMoenkopi — 37.19°N, 113.41°WMoenkopi — 35.87°N, 111.40°WTimezgadiouine — 30.82°N, 9.09°WRed Peak — 43.28°N, 107.18°WAbu Agag — 23.46°N, 33.02°EChinle — 38.65°N, 108.91°WBaranów — 51.03°N, 20.87°EHaizer-Akouker — 36.46°N, 4.17°ERichthofen Conglomerate — 46.66°N, 12.00°EGrès Inférieurs du Maçonnais — 46.25°N, 4.74°EInférieure — 43.75°N, 3.36°EGrès Inférieurs du Roubreau — 44.53°N, 4.29°EBuntsandstein — 49.19°N, 7.61°E

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The named rock units Rotodactylus 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.

Rotodactylus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Rotodactylus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Rotodactylus, 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

20 references

Each of the 35 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. 8 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 content0

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

Wikipedia and 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 Rotodactylus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rotodactylus 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 itRotodactylidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Peabody 1948