Oudenodon

Oudenodon is an extinct genus of dicynodont. It was common throughout southern Africa during the Late Permian. Several species of Oudenodon are known. Both O. bainii, the type species, and O. grandis are known from South Africa. Specimens of O. luangwensis have been found from Zambia. One species, O. sakamenensis from the Lower Sakamena Formation is the only Permian therapsid yet described from Madagascar. It is the type genus of the family Oudenodontidae, which includes members such as Tropidostoma.

Oudenodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OudenodontidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 264.28 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 103 of 103 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 103 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 7 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 7 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 7 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 7 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 7 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 7 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 7 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 7 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 7 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 7 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 7 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 7 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 6 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 2 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 2 occurrences259.857 Mya254.14 Mya264.8 Mya251.4 Mya

103 occurrences of Oudenodon 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

103 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

8 formations

Madumabisa Mudstone — 10.57°S, 32.97°EBalfour — 32.10°S, 23.86°EBalfour — 32.15°S, 23.89°EBalfour — 31.42°S, 23.93°EBalfour — 31.96°S, 24.57°EBalfour — 31.91°S, 23.89°EBalfour — 31.87°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.04°S, 24.22°EBalfour — 32.16°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.05°S, 24.29°EBalfour — 31.76°S, 24.17°EBalfour — 31.95°S, 23.77°ETeekloof — 32.21°S, 21.63°ETeekloof — 31.62°S, 23.20°ETeekloof — 31.91°S, 23.89°ETeekloof — 32.39°S, 22.55°ETeekloof — 31.97°S, 21.69°EMiddleton/Balfour — 32.25°S, 24.53°EChiweta Beds — 10.70°S, 34.17°EKundaram — 19.25°N, 79.25°ELower Sakamena — 23.00°S, 45.27°EMiddelton — 32.58°S, 25.14°E

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The named rock units Oudenodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 55 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Oudenodon and its relatives

Permian

Where Oudenodon and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Oudenodon, 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

29 references

Each of the 103 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. 17 further references are 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 content3

Picture of Oudenodon

Credit
FunkMonk
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Oudenodon bainii · NHMUK:PAL:PV R 37192

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
SorbonNum
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CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1859