Titanosuchidae

Titanosuchidae is an extinct family of dinocephalians known only from the middle Permian Tapinocephalus Assemblage Zone of South Africa.

Titanosuchidae

Creator:Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY 3.0 · 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
TitanosuchoideaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 21 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 274.4 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 40 of 40 occurrencesPermian275–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–264 Mya — about 6 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 6 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 6 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 6 occurrences261–261 Mya — about 6 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 6 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.9 Mya253.6 Mya

40 occurrences of Titanosuchidae 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

40 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

2 formations

Abrahamskraal — 32.97°S, 22.02°EAbrahamskraal — 32.35°S, 22.58°EAbrahamskraal — 32.91°S, 22.03°EAbrahamskraal — 32.86°S, 22.11°EAbrahamskraal — 32.70°S, 21.75°EAbrahamskraal — 32.82°S, 21.97°EAbrahamskraal — 32.50°S, 22.30°EAbrahamskraal — 32.49°S, 22.17°EAbrahamskraal — 31.47°S, 19.77°ERio do Rasto — 30.02°S, 54.15°W

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The named rock units Titanosuchidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 17 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Titanosuchidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Titanosuchidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Titanosuchidae, 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

4 references

Each of the 40 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 Titanosuchidae

Credit
Creator:Dmitry Bogdanov
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Titanosuchidae 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 itTitanosuchoidea through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom 1903