Dicynodontidae

Dicynodontidae

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 264.28 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 237 Mya.

Permian — about 9 of 10 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 10 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264.28 Mya241.464 Mya267.5 Mya236.4 Mya

10 occurrences of Dicynodontidae 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

10 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

Salarevo — 61.19°N, 46.63°EAbrahamskraal — 33.17°S, 22.54°ESanta Maria — 29.75°S, 53.00°W

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The named rock units Dicynodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicynodontidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Dicynodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Dicynodontidae, 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

6 references

Each of the 10 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 Dicynodontidae

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( https://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dicynodontidae 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.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1859