Apricosiren

Apricosiren is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamander that lived during the Early Cretaceous period around 145.5-140 million years ago. It is known from the Berriasian aged Lulworth Formation in southern England. It was a small species.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CaudataPBDB
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 4 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 139.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–143 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–142 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences142–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–140 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.6 Mya138.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Apricosiren on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

3 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

Lulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°W

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

Apricosiren and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Apricosiren and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

52 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Apricosiren, 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

2 references

Each of the 3 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

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No picture of Apricosiren was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Apricosiren, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Apricosiren was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itCaudata through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evans and McGowan 2002