Greererpeton

Greererpeton burkemorani is an extinct genus of colosteid stem-tetrapods from the Early Carboniferous period of North America. Greererpeton was first described by famed vertebrate paleontologist Alfred S. Romer in 1969, based on a skull and partial skeleton from the Bluefield Formation. The skull was redescribed by Timothy R. Smithson in 1982, while postcranial remains were redescribed by Stephen J. Godfrey in 1989.

Greererpeton

ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia · Public Domain · 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
ColosteidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 6.9 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.0 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 occurrences329–328 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 0.3 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330.8 Mya322.9 Mya

5 occurrences of Greererpeton 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

5 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

4 formations

Kinkaid — 37.55°N, 88.97°WBluefield — 39.57°N, 79.85°WHinton — 37.66°N, 80.88°WPomquet — 46.55°N, 61.03°W

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The named rock units Greererpeton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Greererpeton and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Greererpeton and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

10 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Greererpeton, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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 content2

Picture of Greererpeton

Credit
ДиБгд at Russian Wikipedia
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itColosteidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1969