Dicynodon

Dicynodon

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 237 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 31 occurrencesPermian — about 30 of 31 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 31 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 31 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences262–259 Mya — about 4 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 8 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 7 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 4 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259.857 Mya241.464 Mya300 Mya236 Mya

31 occurrences of Dicynodon 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

31 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

Usili — 10.18°S, 35.15°EUsili — 10.23°S, 35.05°EUsili — 10.30°S, 35.07°EUsili — 10.27°S, 34.92°ETeekloof — 31.62°S, 23.20°ETeekloof — 31.97°S, 21.69°ESanta Maria — 29.67°S, 54.37°WKulchumovskaya — 51.66°N, 55.93°EKutulukskaya — 51.92°N, 54.42°EAbrahamskraal — 31.40°S, 23.12°E

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The named rock units Dicynodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicynodon and its relatives

Permian

Where Dicynodon and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Dicynodon, 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

18 references

Each of the 31 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. 6 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 content3

Picture of Dicynodon

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Dicynodon lacerticeps · bp:1:2098

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
person
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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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 itDicynodontoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1845