Syntarsus kayentakatae
Not Syntarsus kayentakatae. This is Syntarsus kayentakatae (Rowe, 1989), a relative — both are Coelophysidae.
Rowe & H. Sues · 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
- SyntarsusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Theropoda
- Life habit
- ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Theropoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 184.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Syntarsus kayentakatae on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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- Early Jurassic100%
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
1 formation
- Kayenta Formation · Glen Canyon Group6
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The named rock units Syntarsus kayentakatae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Syntarsus kayentakatae and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Syntarsus kayentakatae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Archosauria4 sites
- Kayentachelys3 sites
- Scutellosaurus lawleri3 sites
- Dilophosaurus wetherilli2 sites
- Kayentatherium2 sites
- Ornithischia2 sites
- Scutellosaurus2 sites
- Theropoda2 sites
- Coelophysoidea1 site
- Dilophosaurus1 site
- Dinnebitodon1 site
- Oligokyphus1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Thyreophora1 site
- Tritylodontidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Syntarsus kayentakatae, 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- A new species of the theropod dinosaur <i>Syntarsus</i> from the Early Jurassic Kayenta Formation of Arizona3
- Fossil Vertebrate Collections2
- New specimens of Scutellosaurus lawleri Colbert,1981, from the Lower Jurassic Kayenta Formation in Arizona elucidate the early evolution of thyreophoran dinosaurs1
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 Syntarsus kayentakatae (Rowe, 1989)
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Rowe & H. Sues
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Syntarsus kayentakatae 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 itSyntarsus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rowe 1989)