Eoherpeton watsoni

Eoherpeton is the only genus of the family Eoherpetontidae in the extinct suborder Embolomeri. It is known from the Visean and Namurian stages of the Carboniferous of Scotland.

Eoherpeton watsoni

Laura B. PORRO, Elizabeth MARTIN-SILVERSTONE and Emily J. RAYFIELD · CC BY 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
EoherpetonPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 3.4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 326.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330.8 Mya326.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Eoherpeton watsoni 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

2 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

Limestone Coal — 55.88°N, 3.15°W

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The named rock units Eoherpeton watsoni 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.

Eoherpeton watsoni and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Eoherpeton watsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eoherpeton watsoni, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Eoherpeton watsoni

Credit
Laura B. PORRO, Elizabeth MARTIN-SILVERSTONE and Emily J. RAYFIELD
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Eoherpeton watsoni 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEoherpeton through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Panchen 1975