Amphibamidae

The Amphibamidae are an ancient family of dissorophoid temnospondyls known from Late Carboniferous-Early Permian strata in the United States.

Amphibamidae

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 3.0 · 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
AmphibamiformesPBDB
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 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 309.8 Mya to 247 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 26 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 26 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 13 of 26 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 26 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 5 occurrences300–298 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 1 occurrence296–294 Mya — about 1 occurrence294–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 10 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences307.4 Mya251.902 Mya311 Mya246 Mya

26 occurrences of Amphibamidae on record. 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

26 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

7 formations

Katberg — 31.87°S, 24.55°EKatberg — 32.11°S, 26.51°EKatberg — 31.30°S, 25.82°EKatberg — 30.50°S, 25.97°EKatberg — 28.28°S, 29.13°EKatberg — 30.42°S, 26.83°ECarbondale — 41.27°N, 88.14°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.21°WEskridge — 40.15°N, 95.90°WNocona — 33.83°N, 98.09°WNormandien — 28.28°S, 29.13°EKladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°EFremouw — 85.22°S, 175.50°W

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The named rock units Amphibamidae 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.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Amphibamidae, 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

11 references

Each of the 26 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 Amphibamidae

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Amphibamidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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.

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What may have been alongside itAmphibamiformes through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moodie 1912