Switzianthus sp.

No picture of Switzianthus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Switzianthus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At most 51 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 6 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253 Mya200 Mya

6 occurrences of Switzianthus sp. 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

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

Molteno — 30.50°S, 29.00°EMolteno — 29.50°S, 29.50°EMolteno — 28.57°S, 29.05°EMolteno — 31.57°S, 26.22°EMolteno — 30.48°S, 27.10°EQuebrada del Salitre — 26.12°S, 69.33°W

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The named rock units Switzianthus sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Switzianthus sp. and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Switzianthus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Switzianthus sp., 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

2 references

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

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No picture of Switzianthus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Switzianthus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Switzianthus sp. was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.