Labidosaurikos

Labidosaurikos is a genus of extinct captorhinid tetrapods that lived around 279 to 272 million years ago during Kungurian age of the lower Permian. The American paleontologist John Willis Stovall first described Labidosaurikos in 1950, naming it "Labidosaurus like" for the striking similarity of the holotype skull of his specimen to the cranial anatomy of another captorhinid Labidosaurus hamatus.

Labidosaurikos

Uncredited · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
CaptorhinidaePBDB
Diet
insectivore, herbivorePBDB, for Captorhinidae
Life habit
ground dwellingPBDB, for Captorhinidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Captorhinidae
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Captorhinidae

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 286 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesPermian286–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–282 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–281 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences280–280 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences279–279 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences278–278 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences277–277 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences276–276 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences276–275 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences275–275 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286.5 Mya273.9 Mya

11 occurrences of Labidosaurikos 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

11 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

3 formations

Vale — 33.72°N, 99.59°WVale — 33.76°N, 99.37°WVale — 33.74°N, 99.41°WVale — 33.76°N, 99.55°WVale — 33.60°N, 99.25°WVale — 32.13°N, 99.75°WVale — 32.23°N, 99.83°WChoza — 33.82°N, 99.56°WHennessey — 35.95°N, 97.58°W

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The named rock units Labidosaurikos has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Labidosaurikos and its relatives

Permian

Where Labidosaurikos and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Labidosaurikos, 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

Each of the 11 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 Labidosaurikos

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Labidosaurikos 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 itCaptorhinidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stovall 1950