Typopus
No picture of Typopus 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 Typopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetrapodaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 45 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Typopus 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
4 occurrencesThese 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
- Portland Formation · Agawam Group3
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The named rock units Typopus 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.
Typopus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Typopus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
71 taxa- Batrachopus deweyi3 sites
- Eubrontes giganteus3 sites
- Eubrontes minusculus3 sites
- Eubrontes sillimani3 sites
- Grallator tenuis3 sites
- Grallator tuberosus3 sites
- Herpystezoum3 sites
- Steropoides diversus3 sites
- Anomoepus lacertoideus2 sites
- Anomoepus scambus2 sites
- Argoides minimus2 sites
- Batrachopus2 sites
- Batrachopus gracilis2 sites
- Grallator cursorius2 sites
- Platypterna2 sites
- Platypterna concamerata2 sites
- Platypterna recta2 sites
- Plectropterna gracilis2 sites
- Sillimanius tetradactylus2 sites
- Acanthichnus1 site
- Aenigmichnus multiformis1 site
- Ammopus marshi1 site
- Ancyropus heteroclitus1 site
- Anomoepus crassus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Typopus, 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
3 references- Hitchcock, 18582
- Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 18. Ichnia Amphibiorum et Reptiliorum Fossilium1
- Report on ichnolithology, or fossil footmarks, with a description of several new species, and the coprolites of birds, from the valley of Connecticut River, and of a supposed footmark from the valley of Hudson River1
Each of the 4 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 content0
No picture of Typopus 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 Typopus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Typopus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTetrapoda through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hitchcock 1845