Molgophis macrurus
No picture of Molgophis macrurus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Molgophis macrurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MolgophisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 9.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 309.8 Mya and 300.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Molgophis macrurus 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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.
Molgophis macrurus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Molgophis macrurus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Actinopterygii1 site
- Adamanterpeton ohioensis1 site
- Anthracodromeus longipes1 site
- Anthracosaurus lancifer1 site
- Archaeothyris1 site
- Brachydectes newberryi1 site
- Carbonodraco lundi1 site
- Colosteus scutellatus1 site
- Ctenerpeton remex1 site
- Diceratosaurus brevirostris1 site
- Erpetosaurus radiatus1 site
- Eusauropleura digitata1 site
- Haplolepis1 site
- Haplolepis (Haplolepis) corrugata1 site
- Ichthyerpeton squamosum1 site
- Isodectes obtusus1 site
- Leptophractus obsoletus1 site
- Loxomma lintonensis1 site
- Macrerpeton huxleyi1 site
- Megalocephalus lineolatus1 site
- Melanedaphodon hovaneci1 site
- Microhaplolepis ovoidea1 site
- Microhaplolepis serrata1 site
- Odonterpeton triangulare1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Molgophis macrurus, 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
3 references- Taxonomic revision of the Lysorophia, Permo-Carboniferous lepospondyl amphibians4
- Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology Teil 1 / Part 1 Lepospondyli: Microsauria, Nectridea, Lysorophia, Adelospondyli, Aistopoda, Acherontiscidae1
- Synopsis of the Extinct Batrachia of North America1
Each of the 6 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 Molgophis macrurus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Molgophis macrurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Molgophis macrurus 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 itMolgophis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1868