Goniocephalus willistoni
No picture of Goniocephalus willistoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Goniocephalus willistoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GoniocephalusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 8.9 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 283.3 Mya and 274.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Goniocephalus willistoni 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
1 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
- Arroyo Formation · Clear Fork Group1
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The named rock units Goniocephalus willistoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Goniocephalus willistoni and its relatives
PermianWhere Goniocephalus willistoni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Acheloma cumminsi1 site
- Araeoscelis gracilis1 site
- Bolosaurus1 site
- Brachydectes1 site
- Brachydectes newberryi1 site
- Captorhinus aguti1 site
- Diadectes1 site
- Dimetrodon limbatus1 site
- Dimetrodon loomisi1 site
- Dimetrodon natalis1 site
- Diplocaulus brevirostris1 site
- Diplocaulus magnicornis1 site
- Dissorophidae1 site
- Edaphosaurus1 site
- Eryops1 site
- Eryops megacephalus1 site
- Euryodus primus1 site
- Ophiacodon1 site
- Secodontosaurus obtusidens1 site
- Seymouria1 site
- Sphenacodontidae1 site
- Trichasaurus texensis1 site
- Trimerorhachis1 site
- Trimerorhachis greggi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Goniocephalus willistoni, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Goniocephalus willistoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Goniocephalus willistoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Goniocephalus willistoni 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 itGoniocephalus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broili 1913