Apateon pedestris

Apateon pedestris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ApateonPBDB
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 least 1.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 300.3 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 17 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 15 of 17 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 4 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 3 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 3 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–289 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300.3 Mya – 298.9 Mya309 Mya251 Mya

17 occurrences of Apateon pedestris on record. 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

17 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

Meisenheim — 49.78°N, 7.77°EMeisenheim — 49.57°N, 7.71°EMeisenheim — 49.71°N, 7.60°EMeisenheim — 49.57°N, 7.44°EMeisenheim — 49.76°N, 7.70°EMeisenheim — 49.73°N, 7.69°EMeisenheim — 49.59°N, 7.76°EMillery Series — 46.99°N, 4.28°EAutun — 46.95°N, 4.30°EQuirnbach — 49.48°N, 7.41°EGreat Seams — 46.68°N, 4.36°E

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The named rock units Apateon pedestris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

37 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Apateon pedestris, 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

4 references

Each of the 17 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 Apateon pedestris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Apateon pedestris 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. von Meyer 1840