Hylerpeton dawsoni

Hylerpeton dawsoni

John William Dawson · Public Domain · 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
HylerpetonPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 1.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 318.7 Mya and 316.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319.2 Mya316.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Hylerpeton dawsoni 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

1 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

Joggins — 45.70°N, 64.45°W

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

Hylerpeton dawsoni and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Hylerpeton dawsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hylerpeton dawsoni, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Hylerpeton dawsoni

Credit
John William Dawson
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hylerpeton dawsoni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHylerpeton through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1862