Pareiasuchus nasicornis

No picture of Pareiasuchus nasicornis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pareiasuchus nasicornis 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 Pareiasuchus nasicornis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PareiasuchusPBDB
Diet
herbivorePBDB, for Pareiasauria
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 5.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Permian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPermian260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260.4 Mya253.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Pareiasuchus nasicornis 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

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

  • Middleton/Balfour Formation · Beaufort GroupEastern Cape · ZA · 259.857–254.14 Mya1
  • Madumabisa Mudstone Formation · Beaufort GroupEastern · ZM · 259.857–254.14 Mya1
Middleton/Balfour — 32.25°S, 24.53°EMadumabisa Mudstone — 10.83°S, 33.17°E

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The named rock units Pareiasuchus nasicornis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Pareiasuchus nasicornis and its relatives

Permian

Where Pareiasuchus nasicornis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Pareiasuchus nasicornis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

1 reference

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Pareiasuchus nasicornis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pareiasuchus nasicornis 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 Pareiasuchus nasicornis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pareiasuchus nasicornis 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 itPareiasuchus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haughton and Boonstra 1929