Kannemeyeriidae

Kannemeyeriiformes is a group of large-bodied Triassic dicynodonts. As a clade, Kannemeyeriiformes has been defined to include the species Kannemeyeria simocephalus and all dicynodonts more closely related to it than to the species Lystrosaurus murrayi.

Kannemeyeriidae

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
KannemeyeriiformesPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Dicynodontia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 71 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 2 of 71 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 64 of 71 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 4 of 71 occurrencesLate Triassic253–251 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 6 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 16 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 16 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 20 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 4 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 2 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 2 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences247 Mya227.3 Mya252.8 Mya204.8 Mya

71 occurrences of Kannemeyeriidae 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

71 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

15 formations

Ermaying — 36.92°N, 112.90°EErmaying — 36.98°N, 112.88°EErmaying — 36.97°N, 112.85°EErmaying — 37.08°N, 113.00°EErmaying — 39.00°N, 112.30°EErmaying — 39.68°N, 110.97°EErmaying — 39.43°N, 110.85°EErmaying — 38.48°N, 110.75°EErmaying — 37.50°N, 111.15°EErmaying — 38.47°N, 111.13°EErmaying — 37.29°N, 110.70°EBurgersdorp — 30.88°S, 26.22°EBurgersdorp — 31.70°S, 27.23°EBurgersdorp — 30.91°S, 26.11°EBurgersdorp — 31.73°S, 27.90°EBurgersdorp — 30.99°S, 26.32°EBurgersdorp — 30.61°S, 26.62°EBurgersdorp — 31.65°S, 24.98°EBurgersdorp — 30.66°S, 26.49°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.31°EDonguz — 51.42°N, 55.43°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.49°EDonguz — 52.53°N, 53.50°EOmingonde — 21.10°S, 16.45°EOmingonde — 21.06°S, 16.39°EQuebrada de Los Fosiles — 34.85°S, 68.50°WQuebrada de Los Fosiles — 34.93°S, 68.50°WKelamayi — 44.17°N, 88.00°EKelamayi — 42.92°N, 89.17°EKelamayi — 43.99°N, 88.87°ENtawere — 10.75°S, 33.08°EYerrapalli — 18.83°N, 79.70°ERio Seco de la Quebrada — 34.88°S, 68.64°WTongchuan — 37.83°N, 110.66°ESanta Rosa — 35.45°N, 105.87°WTarjados — 29.83°S, 67.75°WNadkrasnokamenskaya — 65.12°N, 58.62°ELipovskaya — 49.26°N, 43.67°EManda Beds — 10.35°S, 34.84°E

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The named rock units Kannemeyeriidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kannemeyeriidae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Kannemeyeriidae and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Kannemeyeriidae, 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

39 references

Each of the 71 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. 27 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 Kannemeyeriidae

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

No 3D scan of Kannemeyeriidae 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.

The description on this site

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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. Huene 1948