Apateon

No picture of Apateon was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Apateon itself, so it was not used. Wikidata and 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 Apateon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BranchiosauridaePBDB
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 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 300.3 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 36 of 40 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 40 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 8 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 8 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 7 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 4 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 3 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–283 Mya — about 1 occurrence283–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300.3 Mya283.3 Mya309 Mya251 Mya

40 occurrences of Apateon on record, most of them in the Permian. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

40 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

15 formations

Meisenheim — 49.71°N, 7.60°EMeisenheim — 49.58°N, 7.70°EMeisenheim — 49.57°N, 7.44°EMeisenheim — 49.78°N, 7.77°EMeisenheim — 49.76°N, 7.70°EMeisenheim — 49.73°N, 7.69°EMeisenheim — 49.59°N, 7.76°EGoldlauterer — 50.86°N, 10.57°EGoldlauterer — 50.64°N, 10.75°EGoldlauterer — 50.68°N, 10.86°EGoldlauterer — 50.71°N, 10.64°EGoldlauter — 50.87°N, 10.50°EGoldlauter — 50.80°N, 10.48°ENiederhäslich-Schweinsdorf — 51.00°N, 13.65°EMohrenbach — 50.64°N, 10.72°EProsecne — 50.57°N, 15.62°EMuse — 47.03°N, 4.38°EIlmenau — 50.88°N, 10.45°EBortewitz — 51.20°N, 12.93°EMillery Series — 46.99°N, 4.28°EAutun — 46.95°N, 4.30°EQuirnbach — 49.48°N, 7.41°EOberhof — 50.82°N, 10.59°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°EGreat Seams — 46.68°N, 4.36°E

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The named rock units Apateon 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.

Apateon and its relatives

Permian

Where Apateon and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Apateon, 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

10 references

Each of the 40 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 content0

No picture of Apateon was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

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

Wikidata and 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 Apateon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Apateon 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1844