Spinosuchus caseanus
No picture of Spinosuchus caseanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Spinosuchus caseanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SpinosuchusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida
Time the record covers
At most 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Spinosuchus caseanus 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- Late 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
- Tecovas Formation · Dockum Group3
- Trujillo Formation · Dockum Group1
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The named rock units Spinosuchus caseanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Spinosuchus caseanus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Spinosuchus caseanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Aetosauria2 sites
- Anaschisma browni2 sites
- Mystriosuchinae2 sites
- Apachesaurus gregorii1 site
- Archosauriformes1 site
- Arganodus dorotheae1 site
- Calyptosuchus wellesi1 site
- Caseosaurus crosbyensis1 site
- Chinlea sorenseni1 site
- Coelophysis1 site
- Colognathus obscurus1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Otischalkia elderae1 site
- Postosuchus kirkpatricki1 site
- Reptilia1 site
- Smilosuchus gregorii1 site
- Stagonolepididae1 site
- Trilophosaurus buettneri1 site
- Trilophosaurus jacobsi1 site
- Unionidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Spinosuchus caseanus, 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
3 references- Die fossile Reptil-Ordnung Saurischia, ihre Entwicklung und Geschichte [The fossil reptile order Saurischia, their development and history]2
- New record of Spinosuchus caseanus (Archosauromorpha: Trilophosauridae) from the Late Triassic (Adamanian) of West Texas1
- Redescription of Spinosuchus caseanus (Archosauromorpha: Trilophosauridae) from the Upper Triassic of North America1
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 Spinosuchus caseanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Spinosuchus caseanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Spinosuchus caseanus 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 itSpinosuchus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huene 1932