Anteosaurus magnificus
No picture of Anteosaurus magnificus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Anteosaurus magnificus 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 Anteosaurus magnificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnteosaurusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 4.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 264.28 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
15 occurrences of Anteosaurus magnificus 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
15 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
- Abrahamskraal Formation · Beaufort Group5
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The named rock units Anteosaurus magnificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Anteosaurus magnificus and its relatives
PermianWhere Anteosaurus magnificus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Bradysaurus seeleyi3 sites
- Struthiocephalus whaitsi3 sites
- Bradysaurus baini2 sites
- Titanosuchus ferox2 sites
- Alopecideops gracilis1 site
- Avenantia kruisvleiensis1 site
- Brachyprosopus broomi1 site
- Bradysaurus1 site
- Dicynodon1 site
- Embrithosaurus1 site
- Emydops1 site
- Eriphostoma1 site
- Gorgonopsia1 site
- Jonkeria1 site
- Moschops1 site
- Pristerognathidae1 site
- Pristerognathinae1 site
- Rhinesuchoides capensis1 site
- Rhinesuchoides tenuiceps1 site
- Rhinesuchus whaitsi1 site
- Scymnosaurus1 site
- Scymnosaurus ferox1 site
- Tamboeria maraisi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Anteosaurus magnificus, 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- The fauna of the Tapinocephalus Zone (Beaufort Beds of the Karoo)13
- The distribution of the Karroo vertebrate fauna2
Each of the 15 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
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No picture of Anteosaurus magnificus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Anteosaurus magnificus 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 Anteosaurus magnificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Anteosaurus magnificus 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 itAnteosaurus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Watson 1921