Melanerpeton

No picture of Melanerpeton was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Melanerpeton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BranchiosauridaePBDB
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 15 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 259.857 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 13 of 14 occurrencesPermian305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 3 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 3 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 3 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–291 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences283–282 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences268–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298.9 Mya283.3 Mya304.6 Mya259 Mya

14 occurrences of Melanerpeton on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

14 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

8 formations

Meisenheim — 49.71°N, 7.60°EMeisenheim — 49.58°N, 7.70°EMeisenheim — 49.41°N, 7.78°EVrchlabi — 50.57°N, 15.39°EVrchlabi — 50.62°N, 15.60°EOberhof — 50.71°N, 10.72°EOberhof — 50.82°N, 10.59°EIlmenau — 50.88°N, 10.45°EGoldlauterer — 50.86°N, 10.57°ELower Rotliegendes — 50.58°N, 15.41°EBacov — 49.39°N, 16.55°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°E

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The named rock units Melanerpeton 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.

Melanerpeton and its relatives

Permian

Where Melanerpeton and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

130 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Melanerpeton, 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

5 references

Each of the 14 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 content0

No picture of Melanerpeton was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Melanerpeton, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Melanerpeton 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 itBranchiosauridae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritsch 1878