Burnetiamorpha

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BiarmosuchiaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 47 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
21 occurrences of Burnetiamorpha 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
21 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
7 formations
- Teekloof Formation · Beaufort Group5
- Madumabisa Mudstone Formation2
- Koonap Formation · Beaufort Group1
- Balfour Formation · Beaufort Group1
- Usili Formation · Songea Group1
- Chiweta Beds Formation1
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The named rock units Burnetiamorpha has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Burnetiamorpha and its relatives
PermianWhere Burnetiamorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Abajudon kaayai1 site
- Anteosauridae1 site
- Bullacephalus jacksoni1 site
- Burnetiidae1 site
- Chroniosaurus dongusensis1 site
- Dicynodontoides kubwa1 site
- Endothiodon1 site
- Gorgonopidae1 site
- Inostrancevia1 site
- Isengops luangwensis1 site
- Lemurosaurus pricei1 site
- Leucocephalus wewersi1 site
- Microphon exiguus1 site
- Mobaceras zambeziense1 site
- Niuksenitia sukhonensis1 site
- Pachydectes elsi1 site
- Paraburnetia sneeubergensis1 site
- Peltobatrachus pustulatus1 site
- Platypodosaurus huenei1 site
- Proburnetia viatkensis1 site
- Rhachiocephalus magnus1 site
- Suminia getmanovi1 site
- Tapinocephalidae1 site
- Temnospondyli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Burnetiamorpha, 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
17 references- A second specimen of Lemurosaurus pricei (Therapsida: Burnetiamorpha)3
- Two unrecognised burnetiamorph specimens from historic Karoo collections2
- Eotherapsids from the East European Placket (Late Permian)2
- A new burnetiid from the middle Permian of Zambia and a reanalysis of burnetiamorph relationships1
- A new Late Permian burnetiamorph From Zambia confirms exceptional levels of endemism in Burnetiamorpha (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) and an updated paleoenvironmental interpretation of the Upper Madumabisa Mudstone Formation1
- A new species of burnetiid (Therapsida, Burnetiamorpha) from the early Wuchiapingian of South Africa and implications for the evolutionary ecology of the family Burnetiidae1
- A new mid-Permian burnetiamorph specimen from the Main Karoo Basin of South Africa and a phylogenetic review of Burnetiamorpha1
- Two unrecognized burnetiamorph specimens from historical Karoo collections1
- Lende chiweta, a new therapsid from Malawi, and its influence on burnetiamorph phylogeny and biogeography1
- Tetrapod fauna of the lowermost Usili Formation (Songea Group, Ruhuhu Basin) of southern Tanzania, with a new burnetiid record1
- A Second Burnetiamorph Therapsid from the Permian Teekloof Formation of South Africa and its Associated Fauna1
- A new burnetiamorph (Therapsida: Biarmosuchia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa1
Each of the 21 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. 5 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 Burnetiamorpha
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Mojcaj
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Burnetiamorpha 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 itBiarmosuchia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broom 1923)