Zanclodon

Zanclodon is an extinct genus of archosauriform from the Erfurt Formation in southern Germany. It was once a wastebasket taxon until a taxonomic revision by Schoch (2011) left only the paratype within Zanclodon laevis proper. The type species is Z. laevis.

Zanclodon

H.-D. Sues & R. R. Schoch · CC0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
ArchosauriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Diapsida

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 3 of 6 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 3 of 6 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237 Mya205.7 Mya242.3 Mya200.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Zanclodon on record. 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

3 formations

Erfurt — 49.04°N, 9.77°EErfurt — 48.90°N, 9.20°EStuttgart — 48.80°N, 9.17°EWestbury — 51.60°N, 2.63°W

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The named rock units Zanclodon 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.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Zanclodon, 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

4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Zanclodon

Credit
H.-D. Sues & R. R. Schoch
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Zanclodon 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.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plieninger 1846