Chunerpeton tianyiensis

Chunerpeton is an extinct genus of salamander from the Middle or Late Jurassic Daohugou Beds in Ningcheng County, Nei Mongol, China, containing the only species Chunerpeton tianyiensis. It was a small animal measuring 18 cm (7.1 in) in length, and was neotenic, with the retention of external gills into adulthood.

Chunerpeton tianyiensis

Jonathan Chen · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
ChunerpetonPBDB
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 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 154.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 6 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 6 occurrences169–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences165–164 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences164–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–163 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences163–162 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161–160 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences160–159 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences158–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences145–144 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences144–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences161.5 Mya154.8 Mya168.7 Mya142.6 Mya

6 occurrences of Chunerpeton tianyiensis on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

6 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

2 formations

Tiaojishan — 41.32°N, 119.24°ETiaojishan — 40.87°N, 119.99°ETiaojishan — 40.48°N, 119.37°ETiaojishan — 41.41°N, 119.45°EJiulongshan — 37.06°N, 114.40°E

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The named rock units Chunerpeton tianyiensis 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.

Chunerpeton tianyiensis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Chunerpeton tianyiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

60 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Chunerpeton tianyiensis, 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 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Chunerpeton tianyiensis

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Jonathan Chen
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Chunerpeton tianyiensis 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 itChunerpeton through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gao and Shubin 2003