Gorgonopidae

Gorgonopidae

Uncredited · 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
GorgonopsiaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Gorgonopsia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 5.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Permian — about 196 of 196 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 196 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 2 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 2 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 18 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 22 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 22 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 22 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 22 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 22 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 22 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 15 occurrences254–253 Mya — about 8 occurrences253–252 Mya — about 8 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 3 occurrences259.857 Mya254.14 Mya274.9 Mya251.4 Mya

196 occurrences of Gorgonopidae 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

196 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

11 formations

  • Balfour Formation · Beaufort GroupWestern Cape, Eastern Cape · ZA · 259.857–251.902 Mya26
  • Usili Formation · Songea GroupRuvuma · TZ · 259.857–254.14 Mya19
  • Madumabisa Mudstone Formation · Lower Karoo GroupSouthern, Muchinga · ZM · 274.4–251.902 Mya15
  • Teekloof Formation · Beaufort GroupWestern Cape, Eastern Cape, Northern Cape · ZA · 264.28–251.902 Mya12
  • Middleton/Balfour Formation · Beaufort GroupEastern Cape · ZA · 259.857–254.14 Mya5
  • Abrahamskraal Formation · Beaufort GroupWestern Cape · ZA · 274.4–259.857 Mya4
Balfour — 32.15°S, 23.89°EBalfour — 31.96°S, 24.57°EBalfour — 31.91°S, 23.89°EBalfour — 31.87°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 31.95°S, 23.77°EBalfour — 32.04°S, 24.22°EBalfour — 32.16°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.05°S, 24.29°EBalfour — 31.86°S, 24.44°EBalfour — 31.76°S, 24.17°EBalfour — 32.06°S, 24.19°EUsili — 10.30°S, 35.07°EUsili — 10.23°S, 35.05°EUsili — 10.20°S, 35.38°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 16.52°S, 27.95°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.57°S, 32.97°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.77°S, 33.17°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.70°S, 33.21°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 16.48°S, 28.08°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 12.18°S, 32.11°ETeekloof — 32.21°S, 21.63°ETeekloof — 32.15°S, 22.01°ETeekloof — 31.62°S, 23.20°ETeekloof — 31.91°S, 23.89°ETeekloof — 32.08°S, 22.11°ETeekloof — 32.39°S, 22.55°ETeekloof — 31.50°S, 22.39°EMiddleton/Balfour — 32.25°S, 24.53°EAbrahamskraal — 32.42°S, 22.37°EAbrahamskraal — 32.35°S, 22.58°EMoradi — 18.51°N, 7.53°EMoradi — 18.78°N, 7.20°EMoradi — 18.52°N, 7.55°EChiweta Beds — 10.70°S, 34.17°EPoldarsa — 60.53°N, 44.91°EPoldarsa — 60.61°N, 45.62°EIlyinskoe — 55.02°N, 48.83°ESalarevo — 61.19°N, 46.63°E

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The named rock units Gorgonopidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gorgonopidae and its relatives

Permian

Where Gorgonopidae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

294 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Gorgonopidae, 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

29 references

Each of the 196 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. 16 further references are not listed. 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 Gorgonopidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Gorgonopidae 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 itGorgonopsia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lydekker 1890)