Amblypterus

Searched as Archaeoniscus. The Paleobiology Database treats Amblypterus as the accepted name.

No picture of Amblypterus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Amblypterus itself, so it was not used. 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 Amblypterus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ParamblypteriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Actinopterygii

Time the record covers

At least 236 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 100.5 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 5 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 26 of 40 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 40 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 40 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 7 of 40 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 40 occurrences364–355 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences355–346 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences319–310 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences310–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–292 Mya — about 18 occurrences292–283 Mya — about 7 occurrences283–274 Mya — about 1 occurrence274–266 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences266–257 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences212–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–194 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences176–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–140 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences140–131 Mya — about 2 occurrences131–122 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences113–104 Mya — about 3 occurrences104–95 Mya — about 1 occurrence346.7 Mya110.1 Mya364 Mya95 Mya

40 occurrences of Amblypterus 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

40 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

21 formations

Muse — 46.95°N, 4.30°EProsecne — 50.56°N, 15.66°EProsecne — 50.62°N, 15.32°ETlayúa — 18.59°N, 97.90°WProsečné — 50.53°N, 15.38°EProsečné — 50.57°N, 15.62°EMamal — 34.06°N, 74.94°EAssise de Millery — 46.96°N, 4.26°EUniontown Limestone — 39.58°N, 80.97°WAlbert — 45.88°N, 64.67°WPuertollano basin — 38.66°N, 4.13°WAmanakskaya — 52.26°N, 54.85°EGoldlauterer — 50.64°N, 10.75°EGoldlauter — 50.85°N, 10.57°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°EMeisenheim — 49.41°N, 6.91°ELebacher Schichten — 49.61°N, 6.96°ECommentry Shales — 46.29°N, 2.75°EVrchlabi — 50.57°N, 15.39°EDurlston — 51.06°N, 2.08°WGlen Rose Limestone — 30.22°N, 98.00°WJinju — 35.10°N, 128.03°ESan Juan Raya — 18.33°N, 97.57°W

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The named rock units Amblypterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amblypterus and its relatives

Permian

Where Amblypterus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

181 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Amblypterus, 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

23 references

Each of the 40 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. 11 further references are not listed. 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 content0

No picture of Amblypterus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Amblypterus itself, so it was not used.

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 Amblypterus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Amblypterus 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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What may have been alongside itParamblypteriformes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Sauvage 1890