Sphenacodon ferocior
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SphenacodonPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
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.
6 occurrences of Sphenacodon ferocior 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
6 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
4 formations
- Abo/Cutler Formation2
- Abo Formation2
- Cutler Formation1
- Arroyo del Agua Formation · Cutler Group1
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The named rock units Sphenacodon ferocior has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sphenacodon ferocior and its relatives
PermianWhere Sphenacodon ferocior and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Archeria3 sites
- Diadectes3 sites
- Eryops3 sites
- Ophiacodon3 sites
- Dimetrodon occidentalis2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Bolosaurus1 site
- Ctenospondylus casei1 site
- Diadectidae1 site
- Diplocaulus1 site
- Embolomeri1 site
- Eryops grandis1 site
- Gnathorhiza1 site
- Mircosauria indet.1 site
- Platyhystrix1 site
- Sphenacodon ferox1 site
- Sphenacodontidae1 site
- Trimerorhachis1 site
- Trimerorhachis sandovalensis1 site
- Tseajaia campi1 site
- Xenacanthus1 site
- Zatracheidae1 site
- Zatrachys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sphenacodon ferocior, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
6 references- Pennsylvanian-Permian red bed vertebrate localities of New Mexico and their assemblages1
- Early Permian Vertebrate Assemblage and its Biostratigraphic Significance, Arroyo del Agua, Rio Arriba County, New Mexico1
- Lower Permian vertebrate localities of New Mexico and their assemblages1
- Pelycosauria1
- Vertebrates from the Organ Rock Shale of the Cutler Group, Permian of Monument Valley and vicinity, Utah and Arizona1
- New genera and species of pelycosaurian reptiles1
Each of the 6 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. 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
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No picture of Sphenacodon ferocior was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Sphenacodon ferocior, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Sphenacodon ferocior 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1937