Branchiosaurus salamandroides

Branchiosaurus salamandroides

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BranchiosaurusPBDB
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 6.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 300.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 300.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307.4 Mya300.9 Mya315.7 Mya299.8 Mya

3 occurrences of Branchiosaurus salamandroides 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

3 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

1 formation

Kladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°EKladno — 49.81°N, 13.39°E

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The named rock units Branchiosaurus salamandroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Branchiosaurus salamandroides and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Branchiosaurus salamandroides and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

53 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Branchiosaurus salamandroides, 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

2 references

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 Branchiosaurus salamandroides

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Branchiosaurus salamandroides 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritsch 1875