Amblystoma

No picture of Amblystoma was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Amblystoma itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amblystoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
mole salamanderPBDB
Sits inside
AmbystomatidaePBDB
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 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 37 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 1 of 105 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 105 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 105 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 105 occurrencesPleistocene — about 82 of 105 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–8.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence8.8–7.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.5–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–5.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences5.0–3.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.8–2.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.5–1.3 Mya — about 7 occurrences1.3–0 Mya — about 74 occurrences33.9 Mya129 ka37.7 Mya0 Mya

105 occurrences of Amblystoma on record, most of them in the Pleistocene. 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

105 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

16 formations

Alamosa — 37.37°N, 105.75°WValentine — 42.78°N, 100.03°WValentine — 42.80°N, 100.80°WValentine — 42.81°N, 100.05°WOgallala — 39.08°N, 99.75°WKingsdown — 37.05°N, 100.50°WKingsdown — 37.20°N, 100.30°WWicomico — 29.42°N, 82.22°WWicomico — 29.60°N, 82.42°WFort Randall — 43.10°N, 98.30°WFort Randall — 43.53°N, 99.13°WSappa — 39.80°N, 98.10°WMcPherson — 38.30°N, 97.60°WAsh Hollow — 42.30°N, 98.00°WRunningwater — 42.37°N, 103.32°WLong Pine — 42.38°N, 98.23°WCypress Hills — 49.57°N, 109.88°WCrooked Creek — 37.20°N, 100.30°WSt. David — 31.97°N, 110.30°WGood Creek — 34.00°N, 99.80°WAtotonilco el Grande — 20.30°N, 98.76°W

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The named rock units Amblystoma has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 40 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amblystoma and its relatives

Pleistocene

Where Amblystoma and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.

Found in the same rock

1,284 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Amblystoma, 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

48 references

Each of the 105 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. 36 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 content0

No picture of Amblystoma was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Amblystoma itself, so it was not used.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Amblystoma, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Amblystoma 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 itAmbystomatidae through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tschudi 1838