Jonkeria

Jonkeria is an extinct genus of large herbivorous or omnivorous dinocephalian therapsid, from the Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone, Lower Beaufort Group, of the South African Karoo.

Jonkeria

Boonstra, Lieuwe Dirk. Broom, Robert, 1866-1951. · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
TitanosuchidaePBDB
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 19 of 19 occurrencesPermian264–264 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–263 Mya — about 1 occurrence263–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–262 Mya — about 1 occurrence262–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–261 Mya — about 1 occurrence261–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–260 Mya — about 1 occurrence260–260 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264.8 Mya253.6 Mya

19 occurrences of Jonkeria 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

19 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

Abrahamskraal — 32.91°S, 22.03°EAbrahamskraal — 32.86°S, 22.11°EAbrahamskraal — 32.82°S, 21.97°EAbrahamskraal — 32.49°S, 22.17°EAbrahamskraal — 31.47°S, 19.77°E

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The named rock units Jonkeria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Jonkeria and its relatives

Permian

Where Jonkeria and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Jonkeria, 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

3 references

Each of the 19 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 Jonkeria

Credit
Boonstra, Lieuwe Dirk. Broom, Robert, 1866-1951.
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Jonkeria truculenta · amnh:farb:5633

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoepen 1916