Edaphosaurus cruciger
No picture of Edaphosaurus cruciger was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Edaphosaurus cruciger 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 Edaphosaurus cruciger, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EdaphosaurusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
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.
2 occurrences of Edaphosaurus cruciger 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
2 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
2 formations
- Lueders Formation · Wichita Group1
- Garber Formation · Sumner Group1
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The named rock units Edaphosaurus cruciger has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Edaphosaurus cruciger and its relatives
PermianWhere Edaphosaurus cruciger and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Edaphosaurus cruciger, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
2 references- Vertebrate Fossils from the Lueders Formation, Lower Permian of North-Central Texas.1
- The Localities and Horizons of Permian Vertebrate Fossils in Texas1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Edaphosaurus cruciger was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Edaphosaurus cruciger 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 Edaphosaurus cruciger, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Edaphosaurus cruciger 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.
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. (Cope 1878)