Baurioidea

Baurioidea is a superfamily of therocephalian therapsids. It includes advanced therocephalians such as Regisaurus and Bauria. The superfamily was named by South African paleontologist Robert Broom in 1911. Bauriamorpha, named by D. M. S. Watson and Alfred Romer in 1956, is a junior synonym of Baurioidea.

Baurioidea

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
EutherocephaliaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Therocephalia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 16 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 243.43 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 237 Mya.

Permian — about 43 of 92 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 19 of 92 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 30 of 92 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 92 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 7 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 7 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 7 occurrences256–254 Mya — about 7 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 4 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 4 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 6 occurrences251–249 Mya — about 4 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 4 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 5 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 7 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 7 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 7 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 8 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259.857 Mya243.43 Mya275.1 Mya236.3 Mya

92 occurrences of Baurioidea 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

92 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

17 formations

Burgersdorp — 31.00°S, 26.33°EBurgersdorp — 31.70°S, 27.23°EBurgersdorp — 31.07°S, 26.33°EBurgersdorp — 30.91°S, 26.11°EBurgersdorp — 30.61°S, 26.62°EBurgersdorp — 30.68°S, 26.70°EBurgersdorp — 30.42°S, 26.83°EBurgersdorp — 28.32°S, 28.70°EBurgersdorp — 30.72°S, 26.65°EBurgersdorp — 30.42°S, 26.27°EBalfour — 31.96°S, 24.57°EBalfour — 31.87°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.05°S, 24.29°EBalfour — 31.95°S, 23.77°EBalfour — 33.00°S, 20.45°EDonguz — 51.42°N, 55.43°EDonguz — 51.55°N, 55.36°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.49°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.31°ENormandien — 28.55°S, 29.08°ENormandien — 28.27°S, 29.13°EErmaying — 35.20°N, 112.17°EErmaying — 38.82°N, 110.99°EErmaying — 39.68°N, 110.97°EErmaying — 37.29°N, 110.70°EFremouw — 85.22°S, 177.00°WFremouw — 85.13°S, 174.83°WFremouw — 85.22°S, 175.44°WTeekloof — 32.23°S, 21.61°ETeekloof — 31.91°S, 23.89°EKatberg — 31.18°S, 24.95°EKatberg — 30.50°S, 25.97°EUrpalov — 58.15°N, 48.35°EKoonap — 29.97°S, 26.00°EKoonap — 29.00°S, 26.00°EOmingonde — 21.14°S, 16.42°EPetropavlovka — 51.75°N, 55.08°EJiucaiyuan — 43.80°N, 87.57°EHeshanggou — 39.43°N, 110.85°EMiddelton — 32.58°S, 25.14°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 12.33°S, 32.00°EUsili — 10.25°S, 35.08°E

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The named rock units Baurioidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Baurioidea and its relatives

Permian

Where Baurioidea and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

173 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Baurioidea, 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

35 references

Each of the 92 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. 23 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

Media content1

Picture of Baurioidea

Credit
Dmitry Bogdanov
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Baurioidea 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broom 1911)