Scapherpeton

Scapherpeton

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScapherpetontidaePBDB
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 22 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 60.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 89.8 Mya to 57.5 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 154 of 171 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 17 of 171 occurrencesPaleocene90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 7 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 7 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 12 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 14 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 14 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 14 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 14 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 12 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences83.6 Mya60.9 Mya90.4 Mya56.9 Mya

171 occurrences of Scapherpeton on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

171 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

24 formations

Hell Creek — 47.80°N, 106.10°WHell Creek — 47.68°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 46.03°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.14°N, 103.80°WHell Creek — 46.21°N, 103.77°WHell Creek — 46.38°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 45.95°N, 103.96°WHell Creek — 46.10°N, 103.30°WHell Creek — 46.46°N, 104.02°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.62°N, 107.32°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.98°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.58°N, 106.30°WHell Creek — 47.55°N, 107.25°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.43°WHell Creek — 47.53°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.23°WHell Creek — 46.90°N, 101.50°WHell Creek — 47.61°N, 106.90°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 45.05°N, 101.97°WHell Creek — 45.50°N, 103.10°WHell Creek — 45.64°N, 103.49°WHell Creek — 45.00°N, 103.19°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 49.12°N, 110.47°WDinosaur Park — 50.79°N, 111.62°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.46°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WDinosaur Park — 49.96°N, 110.27°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WOldman — 50.75°N, 111.51°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.84°WOldman — 49.08°N, 110.68°WOldman — 49.16°N, 110.72°WOldman — 50.83°N, 111.32°WLance — 43.30°N, 104.37°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°WLance — 41.57°N, 108.67°WLance — 43.18°N, 104.53°WLance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WLance — 43.13°N, 104.49°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.52°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 103.93°WFort Union — 46.33°N, 104.01°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.10°WFrenchman — 49.04°N, 106.60°WFrenchman — 49.40°N, 107.40°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WHorseshoe Canyon — 51.55°N, 112.87°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WForemost — 49.60°N, 111.00°WIron Springs — 37.57°N, 113.43°WIron Springs — 37.80°N, 112.81°WIron Springs — 37.90°N, 112.74°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 48.01°N, 108.91°WJudith River — 47.73°N, 108.95°WStraight Cliffs — 37.80°N, 111.50°WStraight Cliffs — 37.62°N, 112.16°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.30°N, 103.57°WKaiparowits — 37.42°N, 111.77°WKaiparowits — 37.80°N, 111.50°WLaramie — 40.39°N, 104.49°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WBullion Creek — 47.03°N, 103.65°WJudith River — 49.10°N, 109.50°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WWahweap — 37.63°N, 112.12°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WPorcupine Hills — 51.00°N, 114.10°WWapiti — 55.07°N, 118.69°W

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The named rock units Scapherpeton 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.

Scapherpeton and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Scapherpeton and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

900 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 169 sites for Scapherpeton, 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

45 references

Each of the 171 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. 33 further references are not listed. 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 Scapherpeton

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Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Scapherpeton 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 itScapherpetontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1876