Emydorhinus sciuroides
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EmydorhinusPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Emydorhinus sciuroides 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
2 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
1 formation
- Balfour Formation · Beaufort Group2
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The named rock units Emydorhinus sciuroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Emydorhinus sciuroides and its relatives
PermianWhere Emydorhinus sciuroides and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Emydorhinus sciuroides, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
2 references- A new genus and some new species of mammal-like reptiles1
- On some new genera and species of anomodont reptiles from the Karroo beds of South Africa1
Each of the 2 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 Emydorhinus sciuroides
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Emydorhinus sciuroides 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 itEmydorhinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broom 1921)