Scapherpetontidae

Scapherpetontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmbystomatoideaPBDB
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 137 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 248 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 248 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 204 of 248 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 38 of 248 occurrencesEocene — about 2 of 248 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 248 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 248 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 248 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences150–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences125–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–115 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–105 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences105–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–95 Mya — about 5 occurrences95–90 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences90–85 Mya — about 5 occurrences85–80 Mya — about 31 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 36 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 62 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 71 occurrences65–60 Mya — about 19 occurrences60–55 Mya — about 13 occurrences55–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–9.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.4–4.3 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149.2 Mya11.63 Mya155 Mya4 Mya

248 occurrences of Scapherpetontidae 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

248 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

36 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 — 47.47°N, 107.37°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°WFort Union — 45.80°N, 109.80°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 108.93°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.62°WFort Union — 44.72°N, 108.38°WFort Union — 43.85°N, 108.35°WFort Union — 46.05°N, 104.48°WFort Union — 44.30°N, 109.00°WFort Union — 44.88°N, 109.12°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 46.33°N, 104.01°WFort Union — 46.43°N, 103.93°WFort Union — 41.30°N, 107.74°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°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°WIron Springs — 37.57°N, 113.43°WIron Springs — 37.80°N, 112.81°WIron Springs — 37.90°N, 112.74°WStraight Cliffs — 37.80°N, 111.50°WStraight Cliffs — 37.62°N, 112.16°WStraight Cliffs — 35.57°N, 112.86°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WForemost — 49.60°N, 111.00°WAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.30°N, 103.57°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 48.01°N, 108.91°WJudith River — 47.73°N, 108.95°WKhodzhakul — 40.10°N, 65.80°EKhodzhakul — 42.37°N, 60.03°EKaiparowits — 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°WTullock — 47.80°N, 106.10°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WPaskapoo — 52.20°N, 113.70°WPaskapoo — 52.35°N, 113.77°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WCloverly — 44.50°N, 107.82°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.38°N, 99.59°WNaturita — 37.80°N, 111.50°WNaturita — 37.40°N, 111.20°WJudith River — 49.10°N, 109.50°W

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The named rock units Scapherpetontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Scapherpetontidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,374 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 209 sites for Scapherpetontidae, 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

61 references

Each of the 248 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. 49 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 Scapherpetontidae

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Scapherpetontidae 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 itAmbystomatoidea through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Auffenberg and Goin 1959