Piceoerpeton willwoodense
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PiceoerpetonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Life habit
- aquaticPBDB, for Piceoerpeton
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
- Environment
- freshwaterPBDB, for Piceoerpeton
Time the record covers
At least 1.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 57.5 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 60.9 Mya to 51.1 Mya.
13 occurrences of Piceoerpeton willwoodense on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
13 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Fort Union Formation5
- Bullion Creek Formation1
- Margaret Formation · Eureka Sound Group1
- Willwood Formation1
- Ravenscrag Formation1
- Paskapoo Formation1
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The named rock units Piceoerpeton willwoodense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Piceoerpeton willwoodense and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Piceoerpeton willwoodense and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
234 taxa- Ignacius frugivorus5 sites
- Ectypodus powelli4 sites
- Neoplagiaulax hunteri4 sites
- Palaeoryctes4 sites
- Ptilodus4 sites
- Thryptacodon australis4 sites
- Adunator meizon3 sites
- Anguidae3 sites
- Anura3 sites
- Champsosaurus3 sites
- Dillerlemur pagei3 sites
- Labidolemur soricoides3 sites
- Leptacodon tener3 sites
- Litocherus zygeus3 sites
- Plesiadapis churchilli3 sites
- Plesiadapis fodinatus3 sites
- Protictis paralus3 sites
- Ptilodus kummae3 sites
- Trionychidae3 sites
- Aletodon quadravus2 sites
- Arctocyon acrogenius2 sites
- Bisonalveus holtzmani2 sites
- Borealosuchus formidabilis2 sites
- Bryanictis microlestes2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Piceoerpeton willwoodense, 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- Piceoerpeton, a giant early Tertiary salamander from western North America9
- Mesozoic and Palaeocene lissamphibian assemblages of North America: a comprehensive review1
- Revision of Piceoerpeton MESZOELY (Caudata: Scapherpetontidae) and description of a new species from the late Maastrichtian and ? early Paleocene of western North America1
- Early Tertiary amphibians from the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming1
- A new cryptobranchid salamander from the Early Eocene of Wyoming1
Each of the 13 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 Piceoerpeton willwoodense 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 Piceoerpeton willwoodense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Piceoerpeton willwoodense was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPiceoerpeton through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Meszoely 1967