Captorhinus laticeps
No picture of Captorhinus laticeps was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Captorhinus laticeps 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 Captorhinus laticeps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CaptorhinusPBDB
- Diet
- insectivore, herbivorePBDB, for Captorhinidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Captorhinidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Captorhinidae
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Captorhinidae
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.
7 occurrences of Captorhinus laticeps 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
7 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
3 formations
- Waggoner Ranch Formation · Wichita Group4
- Wellington Formation · Sumner Group2
- Petrolia Formation · Wichita Group1
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The named rock units Captorhinus laticeps has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Captorhinus laticeps and its relatives
PermianWhere Captorhinus laticeps and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Araeoscelis casei1 site
- Broiliellus1 site
- Captorhinus aguti1 site
- Dimetrodon1 site
- Eryops1 site
- Mycterosaurus longiceps1 site
- Ophiacodon1 site
- Pantylus cordatus1 site
- Reiszorhinus olsoni1 site
- Trimerorhachis1 site
- Varanosaurus wichitaensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Captorhinus laticeps, 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- Cranial Anatomy of Primitive Captorhinid Reptiles from the Late Pennsylvanian and Early Permian, Oklahoma and Texas6
- Romeriid reptiles from the Lower Permian1
Each of the 7 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 Captorhinus laticeps was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Captorhinus laticeps 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 Captorhinus laticeps, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Captorhinus laticeps 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 itCaptorhinus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williston 1909)