Apateon gracilis

Apateon gracilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ApateonPBDB
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 most 8.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesPermian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesPermian299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299.4 Mya289.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Apateon gracilis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

2 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

1 formation

Niederhäslich-Schweinsdorf — 51.00°N, 13.65°E

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The named rock units Apateon gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Apateon gracilis and its relatives

Permian

Where Apateon gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

16 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Apateon gracilis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Apateon gracilis

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Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Apateon gracilis 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.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itApateon through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Credner 1881)