Eosimops newtoni

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EosimopsPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Eosimops newtoni 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
4 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
- Abrahamskraal Formation · Beaufort Group1
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The named rock units Eosimops newtoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eosimops newtoni and its relatives
PermianWhere Eosimops newtoni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Alopecodon priscus1 site
- Arctognathus curvimola1 site
- Atherstonia1 site
- Cistecephalus microrhinus1 site
- Dicynodon1 site
- Dicynodontia1 site
- Diictodon feliceps1 site
- Dinanomodon gilli1 site
- Emydops1 site
- Eriphostoma microdon1 site
- Eunotosaurus1 site
- Galechirus scholtzi1 site
- Glanosuchus macrops1 site
- Heleosaurus scholtzi1 site
- Lystrosaurus1 site
- Nanoparia luckhoffi1 site
- Owenetta rubidgei1 site
- Pareiasaurus serridens1 site
- Pristerodon oudebergensis1 site
- Pristerognathoides1 site
- Robertia broomiana1 site
- Scylacosauridae1 site
- Sintocephalus alticeps1 site
- Therocephalia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Eosimops newtoni, 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
2 references- Skeletal morphology, phylogenetic relationships and stratigraphic range of Eosimops newtoni Broom, 1921, a pylaecephalid dicynodont (Therapsida, Anomodontia) from the Middle Permian of South Africa3
- The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna1
Each of the 4 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 Eosimops newtoni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- KnebAE
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Eosimops newtoni 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 itEosimops through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom 1921