Cricodon metabolus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CricodonPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 227.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Cricodon metabolus on record, most of them in the Middle 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 occurrencesThese 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
- Manda Beds Formation · Songea Group3
- Burgersdorp Formation · Beaufort Group2
- Ntawere Formation1
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The named rock units Cricodon metabolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cricodon metabolus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Cricodon metabolus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Diademodon2 sites
- Archosauriformes1 site
- Asilisaurus kongwe1 site
- Cynodontia1 site
- Cynognathus1 site
- Hybodontoidei1 site
- Loricata1 site
- Lutungutali sitwensis1 site
- Pytchoceratodontidae sp.1 site
- Shuvosauridae1 site
- Stagonosuchus tanganyikaensis1 site
- Stenaulorhynchus stockleyi1 site
- Stereospondyli1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cricodon metabolus, 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- Cricodon metabolus (Cynodontia: Gomphodontia) from the Triassic Ntawere Formation of northeastern Zambia: patterns of tooth replacement and a systematic review of the Trirachodontidae3
- Cynodonts from the uppermost Burgersdorp Formation, South Africa, and their bearing on the biostratigraphy and correlation of the Triassic Cynognathus Assemblage Zone2
- On some Triassic cynodonts from Tanganyika1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cricodon metabolus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cricodon metabolus 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 Cricodon metabolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cricodon metabolus 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 itCricodon through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Crompton 1955