Amblystoma maculatum
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Also called
- Spotted salamanderPBDB
- Sits inside
- AmblystomaPBDB
- 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 9.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 9.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 12.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.
7 occurrences of Amblystoma maculatum 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
7 occurrences- Miocene14%
- Pliocene9%
- Pleistocene77%
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
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The named rock units Amblystoma maculatum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Amblystoma maculatum and its relatives
PleistoceneWhere Amblystoma maculatum and its relatives were recorded in the Pleistocene.
Found in the same rock
347 taxa- Ambystoma tigrinum5 sites
- Thamnophis5 sites
- Bufo4 sites
- Rana4 sites
- Rana pipiens4 sites
- Rana sylvatica4 sites
- Ambystoma opacum3 sites
- Blarina brevicauda3 sites
- Carphophis amoenus3 sites
- Castor canadensis3 sites
- Coluber constrictor3 sites
- Crotalus horridus3 sites
- Emydidae3 sites
- Hyla3 sites
- Lampropeltis triangulum3 sites
- Myotis3 sites
- Neotoma floridana3 sites
- Nerodia sipedon3 sites
- Notophthalmus viridescens3 sites
- Ondatra annectens3 sites
- Sorex cinereus3 sites
- Terrapene carolina3 sites
- Agkistrodon2 sites
- Atopomys texensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Amblystoma maculatum, 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
7 references- Pleistocene (Rancholabrean) vertebrate faunas from coastal Georgia1
- A Pleistocene Herpetofauna from Worm Hole Cave, Pendleton County, West Virginia1
- The fossil herpetofauna (Pleistocene; Irvingtonian) of Hamilton Cave, Pendleton County, West Virginia1
- Eshelman and Hager, 19841
- Herpetofaunas of the Big Springs and Hornet's Nest quarries (northeastern Nebraska, Pleistocene: Late Blancan)1
- The Pleistocene (Kansan) herpetofauna of Cumberland Cave, Maryland1
- Herpetofauna of the WaKeeney local fauna (lower Pliocene: Clarendonian) of Trego County, Kansas1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Amblystoma maculatum was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 maculatum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amblystoma maculatum 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 itAmblystoma through timeFormations of the PleistoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shaw 1802