{"id":3515,"date":"2026-07-29T00:00:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/portfolio\/baby-dimetrodon\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T00:00:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T22:00:48","slug":"baby-dimetrodon","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/portfolio\/baby-dimetrodon\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Dimetrodon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of an ongoing study, this baby <em>Dimetrodon<\/em> is of particular interest. As also known from likewise rare edaphosaurid babies, the back sail indicates a rather early onset during these pelycosaur life histories. A primary function associated with sexual selection is heavily debated since the first documentation from 1911! For <em>Dimetrodon<\/em> itself it has never been depicted, so this fossil greatly helps us to finally get it into the literature. Also nice to know: No other remains of <em>Dimetrodon<\/em>-type early synapsids were found outside North America except for the Bromacker species and this isolated find from Saxony.<\/p>\n<p>The fossil slab was already exposing the bones of the lumbar region, hip and proximal tail. We managed to uncover some more details or formerly hidden portions of back spines. Once the preparation was finished, the specimen was mounted in its approximate position within the outline of its reconstruction. At the time of death, this juvenile measured around 0.7 m.<\/p>\n<p><em>Leading preparatress of the fossil: Ronja Sonnenschein (employed 2024\u20132026)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A life-size reconstruction of a juvenile <em>Dimetrodon<\/em> for the Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde Magdeburg, mounted alongside the prepared slab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3513,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pn_jahr":"","pn_taxon":"Dimetrodon","pn_auftraggeber":"Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde Magdeburg","pn_ausstellung":"Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde Magdeburg","pn_masse":"Lebensgro\u00dfe Rekonstruktion; Tier zu Lebzeiten ca. 0,7 m","pn_quelle_url":"","pn_lizenz":"\u00a9 Palaeonavix","pn_alt_url":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/index.php\/fossilwork\/baby-dimetrodon","pn_mitwirkende":"","footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[164],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-3515","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-fossilwork"],"acf":{"pn_jahr":"","pn_taxon":"Dimetrodon","pn_auftraggeber":"Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde Magdeburg","pn_ausstellung":"Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde Magdeburg","pn_masse":"Lebensgro\u00dfe Rekonstruktion; Tier zu Lebzeiten ca. 0,7 m","pn_quelle_url":"","pn_lizenz":"\u00a9 Palaeonavix","pn_mitwirkende":"","pn_verwandte":null,"pn_alt_url":"https:\/\/www.palaeonavix.org\/index.php\/fossilwork\/baby-dimetrodon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/3515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/avada_portfolio"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/avada_portfolio\/3515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"portfolio_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_category?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_skills","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_skills?post=3515"},{"taxonomy":"portfolio_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palaeonavix.bestmarke.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/portfolio_tags?post=3515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}