Actinodon

Actinodon is an extinct genus of eryopoidean temnospondyl within the family Eryopidae.

Actinodon

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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
EryopidaePBDB
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 4 occurrencesPermian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.2 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

4 occurrences of Actinodon 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

4 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

2 formations

Muse — 47.03°N, 4.38°EMillery Series — 46.99°N, 4.28°E

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The named rock units Actinodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Actinodon and its relatives

Permian

Where Actinodon and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Actinodon, 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 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Actinodon

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Actinodon 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEryopidae through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gaudry 1866