Diademodon tetragonus

Diademodon tetragonus

Mojcaj · 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
DiademodonPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 7 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 7 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 7 occurrencesLate Triassic247–247 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241.464 Mya237 Mya247.5 Mya233.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Diademodon tetragonus 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

7 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

4 formations

Burgersdorp — 31.70°S, 27.23°EBurgersdorp — 30.91°S, 26.11°EBurgersdorp — 31.00°S, 26.33°ERio Seco de la Quebrada — 34.88°S, 68.64°WNtawere — 10.75°S, 33.08°EOmingonde — 21.10°S, 16.47°E

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The named rock units Diademodon tetragonus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Diademodon tetragonus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Diademodon tetragonus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Diademodon tetragonus, 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 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. 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 Diademodon tetragonus

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

No 3D scan of Diademodon tetragonus 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 itDiademodon through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Seeley 1894