Kannemeyeriiformes

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.

Kannemeyeriiformes

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

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 184 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 4 of 184 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 137 of 184 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 41 of 184 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 184 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 184 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 184 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 184 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 184 occurrencesLate Cretaceous255–249 Mya — about 3 occurrences249–243 Mya — about 62 occurrences243–237 Mya — about 76 occurrences237–231 Mya — about 14 occurrences231–224 Mya — about 9 occurrences224–218 Mya — about 6 occurrences218–212 Mya — about 6 occurrences212–206 Mya — about 6 occurrences206–199 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199–193 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences193–187 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences187–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–168 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences168–162 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences162–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–106 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences251.1 Mya – 227.3 Mya255 Mya69 Mya

184 occurrences of Kannemeyeriiformes 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

184 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

34 formations

Santa Maria — 29.80°S, 52.78°WSanta Maria — 29.67°S, 54.37°WSanta Maria — 29.57°S, 53.51°WSanta Maria — 29.75°S, 53.00°WSanta Maria — 29.72°S, 53.23°WSanta Maria — 29.88°S, 53.00°WSanta Maria — 29.73°S, 52.05°WSanta Maria — 30.01°S, 52.92°WSanta Maria — 29.62°S, 53.38°WErmaying — 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 — 31.61°S, 26.39°EBurgersdorp — 31.53°S, 26.40°EBurgersdorp — 30.61°S, 26.62°EBurgersdorp — 31.65°S, 24.98°EBurgersdorp — 30.66°S, 26.49°EBurgersdorp — 31.55°S, 26.50°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.31°EDonguz — 51.42°N, 55.43°EDonguz — 51.36°N, 55.49°EDonguz — 52.53°N, 53.50°EDonguz — 52.41°N, 55.65°EChinle — 34.44°N, 109.46°WChinle — 34.53°N, 109.32°WChinle — 34.95°N, 109.76°WChinle — 35.38°N, 109.37°WChinle — 35.03°N, 109.85°WChinle — 35.87°N, 111.31°WChinle — 35.90°N, 111.38°WChañares — 29.85°S, 67.78°WChañares — 29.78°S, 67.73°WChañares — 29.83°S, 67.82°WChañares — 29.89°S, 67.85°WOmingonde — 21.10°S, 16.45°EOmingonde — 21.06°S, 16.39°EManda Beds — 10.32°S, 35.22°EManda Beds — 10.33°S, 35.25°EManda Beds — 10.35°S, 34.84°EManda Beds — 10.38°S, 35.16°ENtawere — 10.75°S, 33.08°ETimezgadiouine — 31.03°N, 9.01°WTimezgadiouine — 31.07°N, 8.93°WQuebrada de Los Fosiles — 34.85°S, 68.50°WQuebrada de Los Fosiles — 34.93°S, 68.50°WFremouw — 84.35°S, 164.05°EFremouw — 84.28°S, 164.35°EKelamayi — 44.17°N, 88.00°EKelamayi — 42.92°N, 89.17°EKelamayi — 43.99°N, 88.87°EIschigualasto — 31.10°S, 68.90°WIschigualasto — 30.00°S, 68.00°WPekin — 35.56°N, 79.28°WPekin — 35.20°N, 79.87°WPopo Agie — 42.70°N, 108.67°WSanta Rosa — 35.46°N, 105.87°WYerrapalli — 18.83°N, 79.70°ERio Seco de la Quebrada — 34.88°S, 68.64°WStuttgart — 49.42°N, 10.48°ETongchuan — 37.83°N, 110.66°EBukobay — 52.41°N, 55.65°EIsalo II — 22.92°S, 44.55°ECerro de Las Cabras — 32.95°S, 69.25°W

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The named rock units Kannemeyeriiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Kannemeyeriiformes and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

334 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 142 sites for Kannemeyeriiformes, 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

88 references

Each of the 184 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. 76 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 Kannemeyeriiformes

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Dmitry Bogdanov
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No 3D scan of Kannemeyeriiformes 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

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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)