Dicynodontoides

Dicynodontoides is a genus of small to medium-bodied, herbivorous, emydopoid dicynodonts from the Late Permian. The name Dicynodontoides references its “dicynodont-like” appearance due to the caniniform tusks featured by most members of this infraorder. Kingoria, a junior synonym, has been used more widely in the literature than the more obscure Dicynodontoides, which is similar-sounding to another distantly related genus of dicynodont, Dicynodon. Three species are recognized: D. recurvidens from South Africa, and D. nowacki and D. kubwa from Tanzania.

Dicynodontoides

Dmitry Bogdanov · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
KingoriidaePBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 247 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 14 occurrencesPermian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 14 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–273 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 3 occurrences259–257 Mya — about 4 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 4 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 2 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254.14 Mya – 251.902 Mya300 Mya246 Mya

14 occurrences of Dicynodontoides 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

14 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

5 formations

Madumabisa Mudstone — 10.57°S, 32.97°EUsili — 10.25°S, 35.08°EUsili — 10.38°S, 35.08°EKundaram — 19.25°N, 79.25°EMiddelton — 32.58°S, 25.14°EKatberg — 30.50°S, 26.00°E

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The named rock units Dicynodontoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dicynodontoides and its relatives

Permian

Where Dicynodontoides and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

34 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dicynodontoides, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

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

11 references

Each of the 14 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 Dicynodontoides

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

No 3D scan of Dicynodontoides was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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 1940