Celtedens

Celtedens is an extinct genus of albanerpetontid amphibian from the Early Cretaceous of England, Spain, Sweden and Italy, and the Late Jurassic of Portugal.

Celtedens

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
Sits inside
AlbanerpetontidaePBDB
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 77 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 3 of 10 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 10 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 10 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence144–141 Mya — about 1 occurrence141–138 Mya — about 3 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149.2 Mya72.2 Mya157 Mya64 Mya

10 occurrences of Celtedens on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

10 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

6 formations

Lulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLourinhã — 39.22°N, 9.34°WDensuș-Ciula — 45.62°N, 22.78°EAnnero — 55.58°N, 13.77°ELa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WAlcobaça — 39.70°N, 8.80°W

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The named rock units Celtedens 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.

Celtedens and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Celtedens and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

342 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Celtedens, 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

8 references

Each of the 10 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 Celtedens

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Celtedens 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.

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What may have been alongside itAlbanerpetontidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McGowan and Evans 1995