Kannemeyeria

Kannemeyeria is a genus of dicynodont that lived during the Anisian age of Middle Triassic period in what is now Africa and South America. The generic name is given in honor of Daniel Rossouw Kannemeyer, the South African fossil collector who discovered the original specimen. It is one of the first representatives of the family, and hence one of the first large herbivores of the Triassic.

Kannemeyeria

Ghedoghedo · 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
KannemeyeriidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 18 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 18 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 16 of 18 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 18 occurrencesLate Triassic252–252 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 1 occurrence247–246 Mya — about 2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya241.464 Mya252.4 Mya233.1 Mya

18 occurrences of Kannemeyeria on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

18 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

5 formations

Burgersdorp — 30.88°S, 26.22°EBurgersdorp — 31.70°S, 27.23°EBurgersdorp — 30.91°S, 26.11°EBurgersdorp — 30.99°S, 26.32°EBurgersdorp — 30.61°S, 26.62°EBurgersdorp — 31.65°S, 24.98°EBurgersdorp — 30.66°S, 26.49°EOmingonde — 21.10°S, 16.45°EOmingonde — 21.06°S, 16.39°EQuebrada de Los Fosiles — 34.93°S, 68.50°WNtawere — 10.75°S, 33.08°EManda Beds — 10.35°S, 34.84°E

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The named rock units Kannemeyeria has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kannemeyeria and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Kannemeyeria and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Kannemeyeria, 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

13 references

Each of the 18 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Kannemeyeria

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Kannemeyeria 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.

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 itKannemeyeriidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seeley 1908