Ictidosuchops

Ictidosuchops is a genus of therocephalian therapsids. There are currently two named species: Ictidosuchops intermedius and Ictidosuchops baurioides.

Ictidosuchops

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IctidosuchidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Therocephalia
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.

Permian — about 27 of 27 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 27 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–254 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260.4 Mya251.4 Mya

27 occurrences of Ictidosuchops 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

27 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

2 formations

Balfour — 31.96°S, 24.57°EBalfour — 31.87°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.05°S, 24.29°EBalfour — 31.95°S, 23.77°ETeekloof — 32.23°S, 21.61°ETeekloof — 31.91°S, 23.89°E

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The named rock units Ictidosuchops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ictidosuchops and its relatives

Permian

Where Ictidosuchops and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ictidosuchops, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 27 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 content2

Picture of Ictidosuchops

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CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
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Laser scan

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In Copyright
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Specimen
Ictidosuchops longiceps · bp:1:2294

The description on this site

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom 1938