Aphaneramma rostratum

Aphaneramma rostratum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AphanerammaPBDB
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 2.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 248.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Triassic — about 9 of 9 occurrencesEarly Triassic251–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.3 Mya248.1 Mya

9 occurrences of Aphaneramma rostratum on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. 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

9 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

Kongressfjellet — 78.25°N, 16.90°EKongressfjellet — 78.46°N, 15.47°EKongressfjellet — 78.28°N, 17.63°EKongressfjellet — 78.24°N, 17.21°EKongressfjellet — 78.27°N, 16.97°EKongressfjellet — 78.62°N, 14.43°EKongressfjellet — 78.57°N, 15.32°EKongressfjellet — 78.58°N, 15.38°E

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The named rock units Aphaneramma rostratum has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Aphaneramma rostratum and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Aphaneramma rostratum and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

36 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Aphaneramma rostratum, 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

4 references

Each of the 9 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Aphaneramma rostratum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC BY
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aphaneramma rostratum 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 itAphaneramma through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1904