Amphiuma means
The two-toed amphiuma is an aquatic salamander widely distributed in the southeastern United States. It is commonly, but incorrectly, called "congo snake", "conger eel" or the "blind eel".
Brian Gratwicke · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikipedia/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- Also called
- two-toed amphiumaPBDB
- Sits inside
- AmphiumaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 129 thousand years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 129 ka and 0 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Amphiuma means on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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
3 occurrences- Pleistocene67%
- Holocene33%
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.
Amphiuma means and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Amphiuma means and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
213 taxa- Alligator mississippiensis3 sites
- Lepisosteus3 sites
- Odocoileus virginianus3 sites
- Procyon lotor3 sites
- Siren lacertina3 sites
- Aenocyon dirus2 sites
- Amia calva2 sites
- Ardea herodias2 sites
- Chelydra serpentina2 sites
- Crotalus adamanteus2 sites
- Didelphis virginiana2 sites
- Equus2 sites
- Farancia abacura2 sites
- Hesperotestudo crassiscutata2 sites
- Holmesina septentrionalis2 sites
- Ictalurus2 sites
- Lontra canadensis2 sites
- Mammut americanum2 sites
- Mammuthus columbi2 sites
- Mycteria americana2 sites
- Platypeltis ferox2 sites
- Podilymbus podiceps2 sites
- Sigmodon hispidus2 sites
- Tapirus (Helicotapirus) veroensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Amphiuma means, 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
3 references- Faunal remanis from Mixon's Hammock, Okefenokee swamp1
- A Pleistocene vertebrate fauna from Palm Beach County, Florida1
- Vertebrata mostly from Stratum No. 3, at Vero, Florida, together with descriptions of new species1
Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Amphiuma means
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Brian Gratwicke
- Licence
- CC BY 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Amphiuma means 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAmphiuma through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Garden 1821