Sclerocephalus haeuseri

Sclerocephalus haeuseri

Dr. Günter Bechly · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SclerocephalusPBDB
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 most 16 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 283.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 20 occurrencesPermian — about 20 of 20 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 2 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 1 occurrence293–293 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–285 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences285–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299.4 Mya282.8 Mya

20 occurrences of Sclerocephalus haeuseri 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

20 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

1 formation

  • Meisenheim Formation · Rotliegend GroupRhineland-Palatine, Rhineland-Palatinate, Rhineland-Pfalz · DE · 298.9–283.3 Mya20
Meisenheim — 49.57°N, 7.71°EMeisenheim — 49.71°N, 7.60°EMeisenheim — 49.59°N, 7.76°EMeisenheim — 49.76°N, 7.70°EMeisenheim — 49.57°N, 7.44°EMeisenheim — 49.41°N, 7.78°EMeisenheim — 49.73°N, 7.69°EMeisenheim — 49.83°N, 7.57°EMeisenheim — 49.52°N, 7.33°EMeisenheim — 49.80°N, 7.78°E

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The named rock units Sclerocephalus haeuseri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Sclerocephalus haeuseri and its relatives

Permian

Where Sclerocephalus haeuseri and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

12 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Sclerocephalus haeuseri, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 20 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 content1

Picture of Sclerocephalus haeuseri

Credit
Dr. Günter Bechly
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sclerocephalus haeuseri 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 itSclerocephalus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Goldfuss 1847