Baphetes

Baphetes is an extinct genus of stem-tetrapod from the Pennine Coal Measures Group and Parrot Coal, England, the Joggins Formation of Nova Scotia, and the Kladno Formation of the Czech Republic. It was first named by Richard Owen in 1854. The type species is B. planiceps.

No picture of Baphetes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Baphetes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BaphetinaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 7.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 309.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 307 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 7 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316.9 Mya309.8 Mya323.9 Mya306.5 Mya

7 occurrences of Baphetes on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

7 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

4 formations

Parrot Coal — 56.20°N, 3.00°WKladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°EMiddle Coal Measures — 55.87°N, 3.96°WJoggins — 45.70°N, 64.45°W

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The named rock units Baphetes 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.

Baphetes and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Baphetes and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Baphetes, 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

6 references

Each of the 7 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 content0

No picture of Baphetes was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan of Baphetes 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

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itBaphetinae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1854