Lisserpeton

Lisserpeton is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamander of the Hell Creek Formation. Its closest living relatives are the mole salamanders.

Lisserpeton

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScapherpetontidaePBDB
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 least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 60.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 57.5 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 22 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 8 of 30 occurrencesPaleocene84–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–62 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72.2 Mya60.9 Mya84.1 Mya57 Mya

30 occurrences of Lisserpeton on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

30 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

11 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 106.90°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 46.33°N, 104.01°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WDinosaur Park — 49.96°N, 110.27°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.38°N, 99.59°WLaramie — 40.39°N, 104.49°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WFrenchman — 49.40°N, 107.40°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WCerro del Pueblo — 25.54°N, 101.36°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°W

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The named rock units Lisserpeton 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.

Lisserpeton and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Lisserpeton and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

564 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 29 sites for Lisserpeton, 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

17 references

Each of the 30 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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

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Picture of Lisserpeton

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Credit
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Licence
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No 3D scan of Lisserpeton 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 itScapherpetontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Estes 1965