Marmorerpeton kermacki
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarmorerpetonPBDB
- 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 most 2.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Marmorerpeton kermacki on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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- Middle Jurassic100%
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
2 formations
- Forest Marble Formation · Great Oolite Group1
- Kilmaluag Formation · Great Estuarine Group1
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The named rock units Marmorerpeton kermacki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Marmorerpeton kermacki and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Marmorerpeton kermacki and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Bellairsia gracilis2 sites
- Borealestes serendipitus2 sites
- Caudata2 sites
- Cteniogenys2 sites
- Eupantotheria2 sites
- Gekkota2 sites
- Hybodus2 sites
- Lepidotes2 sites
- Marmoretta oxoniensis2 sites
- Pleurosternidae2 sites
- Pterosauria2 sites
- Scincomorpha2 sites
- Stereognathus ooliticus2 sites
- Theriosuchus2 sites
- Wareolestes rex2 sites
- Acrodus1 site
- Actinistia1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Allotheria1 site
- Amioidea1 site
- Amphitheria1 site
- Amphitherium1 site
- Anguimorpha1 site
- Ankylosauria1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Marmorerpeton kermacki, 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
2 references- The Middle Jurassic vertebrate assemblage of Skye, Scotland1
- The earliest known Salamanders (Amphibia, Caudata): A record from the Middle Jurassic of England1
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. 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 Marmorerpeton kermacki
- Source
- iDigBio
- Credit
- via iDigBio
- Licence
- CC BY
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Marmorerpeton kermacki 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 itMarmorerpeton through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evans et al. 1988