Diictodon

Searched as Anomodon. The Paleobiology Database treats Diictodon as the accepted name.

No picture of Diictodon was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Diictodon itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia and 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 Diictodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PylaecephalidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 257 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 95 occurrencesPermian — about 93 of 95 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 95 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 95 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 95 occurrencesPliocene — about 0 of 95 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 95 occurrences305–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–274 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences274–264 Mya — about 2 occurrences264–254 Mya — about 86 occurrences254–244 Mya — about 4 occurrences20–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence259.857 Mya2.58 Mya305 Mya0 Mya

95 occurrences of Diictodon 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

95 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

6 formations

Teekloof — 32.15°S, 22.01°ETeekloof — 31.92°S, 21.52°ETeekloof — 32.23°S, 21.61°ETeekloof — 32.26°S, 21.66°ETeekloof — 32.24°S, 21.66°ETeekloof — 32.08°S, 22.11°ETeekloof — 32.39°S, 22.55°ETeekloof — 32.15°S, 22.73°ETeekloof — 31.97°S, 21.69°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.57°S, 32.97°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 12.18°S, 32.11°EAbrahamskraal — 32.42°S, 22.37°EAbrahamskraal — 32.97°S, 22.02°EAbrahamskraal — 32.35°S, 22.58°EAbrahamskraal — 32.91°S, 22.03°EAbrahamskraal — 32.89°S, 21.87°EBalfour — 31.96°S, 24.57°EBalfour — 31.87°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.04°S, 24.22°EBalfour — 32.05°S, 24.29°EMiddleton/Balfour — 32.25°S, 24.53°EGuodikeng — 43.82°N, 87.83°E

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The named rock units Diictodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diictodon and its relatives

Permian

Where Diictodon and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Diictodon, 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

31 references

Each of the 95 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. 19 further references are not listed. 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

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No picture of Diictodon was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Diictodon itself, so it was not used.

Wikipedia and 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 Diictodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Diictodon 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.

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What may have been alongside itPylaecephalidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Keyser 1975