Kitchinganomodon crassus
Dr Thomas S. Kemp · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- KitchinganomodonPBDB
- Diet
- herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
- 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.
4 occurrences of Kitchinganomodon crassus 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
4 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
2 formations
- Balfour Formation · Beaufort Group1
- Madumabisa Mudstone Formation1
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The named rock units Kitchinganomodon crassus 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.
Kitchinganomodon crassus and its relatives
PermianWhere Kitchinganomodon crassus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Aelurognathus tigriceps1 site
- Aulacephalodon bainii1 site
- Cistecephalus microrhinus1 site
- Dicynodontia1 site
- Digalodon rubidgei1 site
- Diictodon feliceps1 site
- Dinanomodon gilli1 site
- Gorgonopsia1 site
- Laccosaurus watsoni1 site
- Oudenodon bainii1 site
- Rhachiocephalus magnus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Kitchinganomodon crassus, 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
4 references- Permian and Triassic Dicynodont (Therapsida: Anomodontia) Faunas of the Luangwa Basin, Zambia: Taxonomic Update and Implications for Dicynodont Biogeography and Biostratigraphy1
- The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna1
- Some new Anomodont reptiles in the Bernard Price Collection1
- A Contribution to our Knowledge of the Vertebrates of the Karroo Beds of South Africa1
Each of the 4 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 Kitchinganomodon crassus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Dr Thomas S. Kemp
- Licence
- CC0
- 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 itKitchinganomodon through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Broom 1948)