Scaloposauridae

Tetracynodon darti Sigogneau, 1963, a relative of Scaloposauridae — not Scaloposauridae itself

Not Scaloposauridae. This is Tetracynodon darti Sigogneau, 1963, a relative — both are Scaloposauridae.

Camp, C.L. · CC BY 4.0 · 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
LycideopoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 12 of 16 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 4 of 16 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 16 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–256 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259.857 Mya251.902 Mya264.8 Mya246.5 Mya

16 occurrences of Scaloposauridae on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

16 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

3 formations

Normandien — 28.27°S, 29.13°EBalfour — 31.96°S, 24.57°EUrpalov — 58.15°N, 48.35°E

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The named rock units Scaloposauridae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scaloposauridae and its relatives

Permian

Where Scaloposauridae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Scaloposauridae, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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 content2

Picture of Tetracynodon darti Sigogneau, 1963

Source
GBIF
Credit
Camp, C.L.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Scaloposauridae indet. · bp:1:5220

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 itLycideopoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom 1914