Stegomus
Collector(s): Philip Bircheff · 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
- StagonolepididaePBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Aetosauria
- 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.
6 occurrences of Stegomus 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
6 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
3 formations
- Passaic Formation · Chatham Group2
- Lithofacies Association II Formation · Chatham Group2
- New Haven Formation · Chatham Group1
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The named rock units Stegomus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Stegomus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Stegomus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Crocodylomorpha2 sites
- Temnospondyli2 sites
- Arthropoda1 site
- Cambaridae1 site
- Cionichthys1 site
- Cladophlebis1 site
- Clytiopsis1 site
- Corbiculidae1 site
- Darwinulidae1 site
- Dicynodontia1 site
- Diplostraca1 site
- Diplurus1 site
- Dromicosuchus grallator1 site
- Equisetum1 site
- Hybodontidae1 site
- Insecta1 site
- Myalinidae1 site
- Neocalamites1 site
- Pagiophyllum1 site
- Palaeolimnadia1 site
- Pariostegus1 site
- Phytosauria1 site
- Plinthogomphodon herpetairus1 site
- Postosuchus alisonae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Stegomus, 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
6 references- A new crocodylomorph archosaur from the Upper Triassic of North Carolina1
- Aetosaurus (Archosauromorpha) from the Upper Triassic of the Newark Supergroup, eastern United States, and its biochronological significance1
- Some Upper Triassic reptiles, footprints and an amphibian from New Jersey1
- Triassic reptilian fossil from Wake Count, North Carolina1
- A Triassic armored reptile from New Jersey1
- Triassic life of the Connecticut Valley1
Each of the 6 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 content1
Picture of Stegomus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Collector(s): Philip Bircheff
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStagonolepididae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Marsh 1896