Vancleavea campi
A. Downs · 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
- VancleaveaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Vancleavea
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Vancleavea
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Vancleavea
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 227.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
20 occurrences of Vancleavea campi 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
20 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
- Chinle Formation17
- Tecovas Formation · Dockum Group2
- Redonda Formation · Chinle Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Vancleavea campi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vancleavea campi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Vancleavea campi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
146 taxa- Apachesaurus gregorii8 sites
- Archosauria8 sites
- Anaschisma browni7 sites
- Calyptosuchus wellesi7 sites
- Metoposauridae7 sites
- Reptilia7 sites
- Redfieldiidae6 sites
- Revueltosaurus callenderi6 sites
- Lonchidion humblei5 sites
- Triodus moorei5 sites
- Typothorax coccinarum5 sites
- Aetosauria4 sites
- Archosauriformes4 sites
- Arganodus4 sites
- Colobodontidae4 sites
- Crocodylomorpha4 sites
- Postosuchus kirkpatricki4 sites
- Theropoda4 sites
- Turseodus4 sites
- Acaenasuchus geoffreyi3 sites
- Anaschisma3 sites
- Apachesaurus3 sites
- Arganodus dorotheae3 sites
- Hesperosuchus agilis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Vancleavea campi, 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
5 references- The osteology and relationships of Vancleavea campi (Reptilia: Archosauriformes)13
- Late Triassic (Carnian and Norian) Tetrapods from the Southwestern United States4
- First occurrence of Doswellia cf. D. kaltenbachi (Archosauriformes) from the Late Triassic (middle Norian) Chinle Formation of Arizona and its implications on proposed biostratigraphic correlations across North America during the Late Triassic1
- Rotten Hill: A Late Triassic bonebed in the Texas Panhandle, USA1
- The distribution of the enigmatic reptile Vancleavea in the Upper Triassic Chinle Group of the western United States1
Each of the 20 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 content2
Picture of Vancleavea campi
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- A. Downs
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Vancleavea campi · pefo:56059
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itVancleavea through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Long and Murry 1995