Andrias scheuchzeri

Andrias scheuchzeri is an extinct species of giant salamander belonging to the genus Andrias, which also contains the closely related living Asian giant salamanders. It is known from Oligocene to Pliocene aged deposits primarily from Central Europe, but possibly as far east as Western Siberia and eastern Kazakhstan.

Andrias scheuchzeri

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
AndriasPBDB
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 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Oligocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 10 of 12 occurrencesMiocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–21 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences9.6–8.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences8.9–8.2 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences8.2–7.4 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.4–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences23.04 Mya11.63 Mya27.8 Mya6.7 Mya

12 occurrences of Andrias scheuchzeri on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

12 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

Brackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EBrackwater Molasse — 48.48°N, 10.10°EVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°E

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The named rock units Andrias scheuchzeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Andrias scheuchzeri and its relatives

Miocene

Where Andrias scheuchzeri and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

436 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Andrias scheuchzeri, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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 Andrias scheuchzeri

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Andrias scheuchzeri 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.

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What may have been alongside itAndrias through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Tschudi 1837)