Amblypteridae

Amblypteridae

H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON · Public Domain · 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
PalaeoniscoideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 5 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPermian374–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences367–364 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences364–361 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 2 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 2 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences346.7 Mya283.3 Mya374 Mya272 Mya

5 occurrences of Amblypteridae 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

5 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

5 formations

Vale — 32.13°N, 99.75°WKoshelevskaya — 57.03°N, 57.73°ELueders — 33.76°N, 99.14°WKöprülü — 37.25°N, 43.61°ERio Bonito — 26.34°S, 49.92°W

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

Amblypteridae and its relatives

Permian

Where Amblypteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Amblypteridae, 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

5 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Amblypteridae

Credit
H. ALLEYNE NICHOLSON
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amblypteridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPalaeoniscoidei through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.