Aelurognathus tigriceps

Aelurognathus tigriceps

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
AelurognathusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gorgonopsia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 24 of 24 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 24 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–258 Mya — about 1 occurrence258–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–257 Mya — about 1 occurrence257–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–254 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–253 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences252–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260.4 Mya251.4 Mya

24 occurrences of Aelurognathus tigriceps 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

24 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

3 formations

  • Balfour Formation · Beaufort GroupWestern Cape, Eastern Cape · ZA · 259.857–251.902 Mya3
  • Madumabisa Mudstone FormationMuchinga · ZM · 259.857–251.902 Mya2
  • Middleton/Balfour Formation · Beaufort GroupEastern Cape · ZA · 259.857–254.14 Mya1
Balfour — 31.95°S, 23.77°EBalfour — 32.04°S, 24.22°EBalfour — 31.86°S, 24.44°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.57°S, 32.97°EMiddleton/Balfour — 32.25°S, 24.53°E

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The named rock units Aelurognathus tigriceps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aelurognathus tigriceps and its relatives

Permian

Where Aelurognathus tigriceps and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Aelurognathus tigriceps, 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

5 references

Each of the 24 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 content2

Picture of Aelurognathus tigriceps

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

Photogrammetry

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Aelurognathus tigriceps · sam:pk:k10496

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. (Broom and Haughton 1913)