Ruhuhucerberus haughtoni

Christian F. Kammerer · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
- RuhuhucerberusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Gorgonopsia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ruhuhucerberus haughtoni 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
3 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
1 formation
- Usili Formation · Songea Group3
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The named rock units Ruhuhucerberus haughtoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ruhuhucerberus haughtoni and its relatives
PermianWhere Ruhuhucerberus haughtoni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Aloposaurus1 site
- Arctognathus nasuta1 site
- Cistecephalus microrhinus1 site
- Daptocephalus huenei1 site
- Dicynodontoides nowacki1 site
- Dinogorgon rubidgei1 site
- Euptychognathus bathyrhynchus1 site
- Geikia locusticeps1 site
- Gorgonopidae1 site
- Katumbia parringtoni1 site
- Kawingasaurus fossilis1 site
- Platypodosaurus huenei1 site
- Procynosuchus1 site
- Rhachiocephalus behemoth1 site
- Rhachiocephalus magnus1 site
- Rubidgea atrox1 site
- Silphoictidoides ruhuhuensis1 site
- Sycosaurus nowaki1 site
- Theriognathus microps1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ruhuhucerberus haughtoni, 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
2 references- Systematics of the Rubidgeinae (Therapsida: Gorgonopsia)2
- Die Theriodontier des ostafrikanischen Ruhuhu-Gebietes in der Tuebinger Sammlung1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Ruhuhucerberus haughtoni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Christian F. Kammerer
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- 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 itRuhuhucerberus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Huene 1950)