Gorgonops torvus

Gorgonops torvus

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GorgonopsPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gorgonopsia
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.

Permian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesPermian264–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264.8 Mya253.6 Mya

7 occurrences of Gorgonops torvus 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

7 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

1 formation

  • Teekloof Formation · Beaufort GroupNorthern Cape, Western Cape · ZA · 264.28–254.14 Mya2
Teekloof — 32.08°S, 22.11°ETeekloof — 32.39°S, 22.55°E

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The named rock units Gorgonops torvus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gorgonops torvus and its relatives

Permian

Where Gorgonops torvus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Gorgonops torvus, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

3 references

Each of the 7 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 Gorgonops torvus

Credit
Dmitry Bogdanov
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1876