Tetracynodon darti
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TetracynodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Therocephalia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 251.902 Mya and 247 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Tetracynodon darti on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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
6 occurrences- Early Triassic100%
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
- Normandien Formation · Beaufort Group3
- Katberg Formation · Beaufort Group2
- Balfour Formation1
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The named rock units Tetracynodon darti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Tetracynodon darti and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Tetracynodon darti and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Lystrosaurus declivis3 sites
- Lystrosaurus murrayi3 sites
- Moschorhinus kitchingi3 sites
- Lystrosaurus curvatus2 sites
- Micropholis stowi2 sites
- Prolacerta broomi2 sites
- Thrinaxodon liorhinus2 sites
- Broomistega putterilli1 site
- Dolomitipes accordii1 site
- Eolydekkerina magna1 site
- Ericiolacerta parva1 site
- Galesaurus planiceps1 site
- Lydekkerina huxleyi1 site
- Lystrosaurus1 site
- Olivierosuchus parringtoni1 site
- Phonodus dutoitorum1 site
- Procolophon trigoniceps1 site
- Procolophonichnium nopcsai1 site
- Proterosuchidae1 site
- Proterosuchus fergusi1 site
- Saurodektes rogersorum1 site
- Sauropareion anoplus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tetracynodon darti, 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
3 references- Reassessment of the morphology and paleobiology of the therocephalian Tetracynodon darti (Therapsida), and the phylogenetic relationships of Baurioidea4
- Barendskraal, a diverse amniote locality from the Lystrosaurus assemblage zone, early Triassic of South Africa1
- Note sur une novelle espece de Scaloposauridae1
Each of the 6 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
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Tetracynodon darti · UCMP:V:42869
No picture of Tetracynodon darti was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Tetracynodon darti itself, so it was not used.
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 Tetracynodon darti, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTetracynodon through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sigogneau 1963