Diademodontidae

Diademodontidae is an extinct family of Triassic gomphodonts. The best-known genus is Diademodon from South Africa. Titanogomphodon from Namibia may also be a member of Diademodontidae. The Chinese genera Hazhenia and Ordosiodon have also been included in the family, but were more recently identified as baurioid therocephalians. Remains of a diademodontid were reported in the Early-Middle Triassic Fremouw Formation in Antarctica, but that specimen was later referred to the trirachodontid Impidens.

Diademodontidae

FunkMonk · 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
GomphodontiaPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesEarly Jurassic248–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241.464 Mya201.4 Mya248 Mya192 Mya

3 occurrences of Diademodontidae on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

3 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

3 formations

Omingonde — 21.10°S, 16.45°EManda Beds — 10.47°S, 34.78°EElliot — 29.11°S, 27.32°E

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The named rock units Diademodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Diademodontidae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Diademodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Diademodontidae, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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 Diademodontidae

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

No 3D scan of Diademodontidae 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itGomphodontia through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haughton 1925