Secodontosaurus obtusidens
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SecodontosaurusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 16 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 290.1 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Secodontosaurus obtusidens 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
5 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
4 formations
- Belle Plains Formation · Wichita Group2
- Waggoner Ranch Formation · Wichita Group1
- Arroyo Formation · Clear Fork Group1
- Admiral Formation · Wichita Group1
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The named rock units Secodontosaurus obtusidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Secodontosaurus obtusidens and its relatives
PermianWhere Secodontosaurus obtusidens and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Eryops5 sites
- Diadectes4 sites
- Dimetrodon limbatus3 sites
- Diadectes sideropelicus2 sites
- Dimetrodon natalis2 sites
- Eryops megacephalus2 sites
- Ophiacodon2 sites
- Ophiacodon retroversus2 sites
- Parioxys ferricolus2 sites
- Trimerorhachis2 sites
- Acheloma cumminsi1 site
- Araeoscelis gracilis1 site
- Archeria1 site
- Aspidosaurus1 site
- Bolosaurus1 site
- Bolosaurus major1 site
- Bolosaurus striatus1 site
- Brachydectes1 site
- Brachydectes newberryi1 site
- Captorhinus aguti1 site
- Cricotus1 site
- Dimetrodon loomisi1 site
- Dimetrodon macrospondylus1 site
- Diplocaulus brevirostris1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Secodontosaurus obtusidens, 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
3 references- Vertebrate faunal horizons in the Texas Permo-Carboniferous red beds3
- Review of the Pelycosauria1
- Studies on American Permo-Carboniferous reptiles1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Secodontosaurus obtusidens was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Secodontosaurus obtusidens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Secodontosaurus obtusidens 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSecodontosaurus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1880)