Marmorerpeton wakei

Marmorerpeton is an extinct genus of prehistoric stem group-salamanders from the Middle Jurassic of the United Kingdom. They are among the oldest known salamanders.

Marmorerpeton wakei

MEHJones · CC BY-SA 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
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.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Jurassic168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–168 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–167 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences167–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–166 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences166–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences165–165 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.7 Mya164.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Marmorerpeton wakei 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

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

Kilmaluag — 57.17°N, 6.11°W

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

Marmorerpeton wakei and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Marmorerpeton wakei and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Marmorerpeton wakei, 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 content2

Picture of Marmorerpeton wakei

Credit
MEHJones
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
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CT scan

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Specimen
Marmorerpeton wakei · nms:g:2021.4.3

The description on this site

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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 itMarmorerpeton through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jones et al. 2022