Alopecodon priscus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlopecodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Therocephalia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Alopecodon priscus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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 occurrences- Permian100%
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
- Abrahamskraal Formation · Beaufort Group2
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The named rock units Alopecodon priscus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Alopecodon priscus and its relatives
PermianWhere Alopecodon priscus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Emydops1 site
- Eosimops newtoni1 site
- Eriphostoma microdon1 site
- Glanosuchus macrops1 site
- Pristerognathoides1 site
- Robertia broomiana1 site
- Titanosuchus ferox1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Alopecodon priscus, 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
2 references- The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna2
- The fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo)2
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Alopecodon priscus 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 Alopecodon priscus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Alopecodon priscus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAlopecodon through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom