Conjunctio

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- EucacopinaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Olsoniformes
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Olsoniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 286 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Conjunctio on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
4 occurrences- Carboniferous7%
- Permian93%
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
- Abo Formation1
- Abo/Cutler Formation1
- Nocona Formation · Wichita Group1
- Cutler Formation1
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The named rock units Conjunctio has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Conjunctio and its relatives
PermianWhere Conjunctio and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Diadectes2 sites
- Aerosaurus wellesi1 site
- Aspidosaurus novomexicanus1 site
- Dimetrodon1 site
- Edaphosaurus1 site
- Edaphosaurus novomexicanus1 site
- Eryops grandis1 site
- Limnoscelis1 site
- Oedaleops campi1 site
- Ophiacodon mirus1 site
- Pleuracanthidae1 site
- Rhiodenticulatus heatoni1 site
- Scapanops neglecta1 site
- Sphenacodon ferox1 site
- Tetrapoda1 site
- Zatrachys serratus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Conjunctio, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- A new dissorophid temnospondyl from the Lower Permian of north-central Texas2
- New information on the dissorophid Conjunctio (Temnospondyli) based on a specimen from the Cutler Formation of Colorado, U.S.A.1
- Early evolution of the dissorophid amphibians1
Each of the 4 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 Conjunctio
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Conjunctio 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEucacopinae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Carroll 1964