Cochleosaurus

Cochleosaurus were medium-sized edopoid temnospondyls that lived in Euramerica during the Moscovian age. Two species, C. bohemicus and C. florensis, have been identified from the fossil record.

Cochleosaurus

Tommy from Arad · CC BY 2.0 · 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
CochleosauridaePBDB
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 most 8.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 315.2 Mya and 307 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315.7 Mya306.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Cochleosaurus 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

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

1 formation

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

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The named rock units Cochleosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cochleosaurus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cochleosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cochleosaurus, 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

5 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. 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 Cochleosaurus

Credit
Tommy from Arad
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cochleosaurus 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 itCochleosauridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritsch 1885