Tritheledon riconoi

Tritheledon is an extinct genus of cynodonts that lived during the Lower Jurassic. Fossils were found in the Elliot Formation, South Africa. Like all cynodonts, it had many traits shared by mammals. Tritheledonts were probably insectivores, and nocturnal animals.

No picture of Tritheledon riconoi 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 Tritheledon riconoi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TritheledonPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 8.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–199 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–198 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–197 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–196 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–194 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences193–193 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201.9 Mya192.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Tritheledon riconoi 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

1 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

1 formation

Elliot — 30.43°S, 28.52°E

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

Tritheledon riconoi and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Tritheledon riconoi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Tritheledon riconoi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Tritheledon riconoi 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 Tritheledon riconoi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tritheledon riconoi 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itTritheledon through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom 1912