Procynosuchus delaharpeae

Procynosuchus delaharpeae

Nobu Tamura ( https://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 2.5 · 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
ProcynosuchusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 25 of 26 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 1 of 26 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrences260–259 Mya — about 1 occurrence259–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–259 Mya — about 2 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–258 Mya — about 2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–257 Mya — about 2 occurrences257–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences256–256 Mya — about 2 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–255 Mya — about 2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–254 Mya — about 1 occurrence254–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–252 Mya — about 1 occurrence252–252 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254.14 Mya251.902 Mya260.4 Mya246.5 Mya

26 occurrences of Procynosuchus delaharpeae 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

26 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

4 formations

Balfour — 31.91°S, 23.89°EBalfour — 31.87°S, 24.55°EBalfour — 32.05°S, 24.29°EBalfour — 32.06°S, 24.19°EUsili — 10.23°S, 35.05°EWerra — 51.26°N, 8.88°ETeekloof — 31.97°S, 21.69°E

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The named rock units Procynosuchus delaharpeae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Procynosuchus delaharpeae and its relatives

Permian

Where Procynosuchus delaharpeae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Procynosuchus delaharpeae, 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

13 references

Each of the 26 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. 1 further reference is 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 content2

Picture of Procynosuchus delaharpeae

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( https://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Procynosuchus delaharpeae · umzc:2020.17

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itProcynosuchus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom 1937