Pugiodens
Searched as Russellites sp.. The Paleobiology Database treats Pugiodens as the accepted name.
No picture of Pugiodens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Pugiodens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParoxyclaenidaePBDB
- Diet
- insectivorePBDB, for Theria
- Life habit
- scansorialPBDB, for Eutheria
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Eutheria
Time the record covers
At most 25 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 274.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pugiodens 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- Permian100%
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
- Nocona Formation · Wichita Group1
- Belle Plains Formation1
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The named rock units Pugiodens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pugiodens and its relatives
PermianWhere Pugiodens and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Antiacodon pygmaeus2 sites
- Hyrachyus2 sites
- Lophiodon remensis2 sites
- Messelobunodon ceciliensis2 sites
- Palaeotherium isselanum2 sites
- Acrididae1 site
- Ailuravus picteti1 site
- Allognathosuchus1 site
- Amphiperca1 site
- Amphirhagatherium weigelti1 site
- Aniliidae1 site
- Asiatosuchus germanicus1 site
- Borkenia germanica1 site
- Boverisuchus magnifrons1 site
- Buxobune1 site
- Capitolacerta dubia1 site
- Capitolacerta dubia n. sp.1 site
- Ceciliolemur1 site
- Cecilionycteris prisca1 site
- Colubridae1 site
- Cyclurus kehreri1 site
- Diplocynodon1 site
- Eobufella parvula n. sp.1 site
- Eocathartes robustus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pugiodens, 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
2 references- Taphonomy of the Lower Permian Geraldine Bonebed in Archer County, Texas1
- Russellites, new genus, a problematical plant from the Lower Permian of Texas1
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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pugiodens was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Pugiodens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pugiodens 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 itParoxyclaenidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Van Valen 1965