Urodela

Urodela

Pavel P. Skutschas and Yuri M. Gubin · CC BY 2.5 · 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
Also called
salamanderPBDB
Sits inside
CaudataPBDB
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 184 million years on record.

The record covers at least 184.2 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 199.5 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 984 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 984 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 984 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 15 of 984 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 17 of 984 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 338 of 984 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 72 of 984 occurrencesEocene — about 33 of 984 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 34 of 984 occurrencesMiocene — about 197 of 984 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 31 of 984 occurrencesPleistocene — about 228 of 984 occurrences203–197 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences197–190 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences190–183 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences170–163 Mya — about 7 occurrences163–156 Mya — about 8 occurrences156–149 Mya — about 5 occurrences149–142 Mya — about 4 occurrences142–136 Mya — about 1 occurrence136–129 Mya — about 2 occurrences129–122 Mya — about 4 occurrences122–115 Mya — about 7 occurrences115–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–102 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences102–95 Mya — about 10 occurrences95–88 Mya — about 15 occurrences88–81 Mya — about 39 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 63 occurrences75–68 Mya — about 155 occurrences68–61 Mya — about 93 occurrences61–54 Mya — about 39 occurrences54–47 Mya — about 14 occurrences47–41 Mya — about 4 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 11 occurrences34–27 Mya — about 17 occurrences27–20 Mya — about 25 occurrences20–14 Mya — about 97 occurrences14–6.8 Mya — about 81 occurrences6.8–0 Mya — about 280 occurrences184.2 Mya11.7 ka203 Mya0 Mya

984 occurrences of Urodela on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

984 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

148 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 — 46.41°N, 103.50°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°WAlamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°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 — 43.80°N, 104.62°WLance — 43.25°N, 104.65°WLance — 43.00°N, 104.50°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 — 46.91°N, 101.44°WFort Union — 45.40°N, 105.60°WFort Union — 44.91°N, 109.02°WFort Union — 41.92°N, 108.56°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°WUpper Freshwater Molasse — 47.67°N, 8.93°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.44°N, 11.04°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.66°N, 10.23°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.63°N, 11.80°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.09°N, 10.03°EUpper Freshwater Molasse — 48.16°N, 10.11°EIron Springs — 37.57°N, 113.43°WIron Springs — 37.80°N, 112.81°WIron Springs — 37.90°N, 112.74°WIron Springs — 37.30°N, 113.40°WTiaojishan — 41.32°N, 119.24°ETiaojishan — 41.41°N, 119.45°ETiaojishan — 40.87°N, 119.99°ETiaojishan — 40.48°N, 119.37°ETiaojishan — 40.53°N, 119.49°EFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.10°WFrenchman — 49.04°N, 106.60°WFrenchman — 49.40°N, 107.40°WFrenchman — 49.30°N, 108.40°WFrenchman — 49.50°N, 109.20°WStraight Cliffs — 37.60°N, 111.97°WStraight Cliffs — 37.80°N, 111.50°WStraight Cliffs — 37.62°N, 112.16°WStraight Cliffs — 35.57°N, 112.86°WBissekty — 42.12°N, 62.66°EBissekty — 40.70°N, 72.60°EWicomico — 29.42°N, 82.22°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WFleming — 30.70°N, 94.70°WFleming — 30.50°N, 95.00°WFleming — 30.80°N, 94.30°WFleming — 30.68°N, 95.05°WRavenscrag — 49.06°N, 102.75°WRavenscrag — 49.50°N, 109.20°WGaverdovsky — 44.61°N, 40.03°EJudith River — 47.73°N, 108.95°WJudith River — 47.81°N, 109.59°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 48.01°N, 108.91°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EHorseshoe Canyon — 51.55°N, 112.87°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WLefkon — 41.17°N, 23.50°EWahweap — 37.63°N, 112.12°WWahweap — 37.59°N, 112.88°WWahweap — 37.65°N, 112.04°WEdelény — 48.39°N, 20.64°E

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The named rock units Urodela has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 124 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 339 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Urodela and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

2,874 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 615 sites for Urodela, and this reads 240 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

321 references

Each of the 984 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. 309 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 Urodela

Credit
Pavel P. Skutschas and Yuri M. Gubin
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Everything alive alongside itCaudata through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Duméril 1805)