Diadectes sideropelicus

CASE,E.C. · CC BY 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- DiadectesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
13 occurrences of Diadectes sideropelicus 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
13 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
6 formations
- Admiral Formation · Wichita Group4
- Waggoner Ranch Formation · Wichita Group2
- Archer City Formation · Wichita Group2
- Clyde Formation2
- Putnam Formation · Cisco Group1
- Petrolia Formation · Wichita Group1
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The named rock units Diadectes sideropelicus 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.
Diadectes sideropelicus and its relatives
PermianWhere Diadectes sideropelicus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Dimetrodon limbatus5 sites
- Eryops5 sites
- Cricotus3 sites
- Eryops megacephalus3 sites
- Trimerorhachis3 sites
- Cricotus crassidiscus2 sites
- Diadectes molaris2 sites
- Dimetrodon2 sites
- Dimetrodon natalis2 sites
- Ophiacodon retroversus2 sites
- Pantylus cordatus2 sites
- Pariotichus brachyops2 sites
- Secodontosaurus obtusidens2 sites
- Amphiscapha (Cylicioscapha) texana1 site
- Archeria1 site
- Archeria crassidisca1 site
- Aviculopecten occidentalis1 site
- Bellerophon1 site
- Bolosaurus major1 site
- Bolosaurus striatus1 site
- Cavellina nebrascensis1 site
- Edaphosaurus boanerges1 site
- Embolobus ritillus1 site
- Euomphalus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Diadectes sideropelicus, 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- Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds7
- Morphology, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Diadectidae (Cotylosauria: Diadectomorpha)3
- The Localities and Horizons of Permian Vertebrate Fossils in Texas2
- Second contribution to the history of the Cotylosauria1
Each of the 13 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. 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 Diadectes sideropelicus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- CASE,E.C.
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDiadectes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1878