Stahleckeria potens

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- StahleckeriaPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Stahleckeria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Stahleckeria potens 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
- Santa Maria Formation · Rosário do Sul Group6
- Chañares Formation · Agua de la Peña Group1
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The named rock units Stahleckeria potens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stahleckeria potens and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Stahleckeria potens and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
6 taxa- Archosauria2 sites
- Dinodontosaurus tener2 sites
- Spondylosoma absconditum2 sites
- Chiniquodon theotonicus1 site
- Exaeretodon major1 site
- Kannemeyeriiformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Stahleckeria potens, 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
4 references- Lieferung 1. Anomodontia [Part 1. Anomodontia]4
- The large-bodied dicynodont Stahleckeria (Synapsida, Anomodontia) from the Upper Triassic (Carnian) Chañares Formation (Argentina); New data for Triassic gondwanan biogeography1
- A new dicynodont from the Triassic of Brazil and the tetrapod biochronology of the Brazilian Triassic1
- New Triassic dicynodonts from South America, their origins and relationships1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Stahleckeria potens
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Dmitry Bogdanov
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Stahleckeria potens 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 itStahleckeria through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huene 1935