Archaeothyris florensis

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArchaeothyrisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota
Time the record covers
At most 7.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 314.6 Mya and 307.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Archaeothyris florensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
1 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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.
Archaeothyris florensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Archaeothyris florensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Carbonoherpeton1 site
- Clepsydrops1 site
- Cochleosaurus1 site
- Cochleosaurus florensis1 site
- Echinerpeton intermedium1 site
- Limnostygis relictus1 site
- Paleothyris acadiana1 site
- Xyloiulus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Archaeothyris florensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Archaeothyris florensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- User:ArthurWeasley
- Licence
- CC BY 2.5
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Archaeothyris florensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArchaeothyris through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Reisz 1972