Amblotherium

Searched as Athrodon. The Paleobiology Database treats Amblotherium as the accepted name.

Tephrodornis pondicerianus pondicerianus (Gmelin, 1789), a relative of Amblotherium — not Amblotherium itself

Not Amblotherium. This is Tephrodornis pondicerianus pondicerianus (Gmelin, 1789), a relative.

Sarthak Awhad · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DryolestidaePBDB
Diet
insectivorePBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Life habit
scansorialPBDB, for Mammaliaformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Mammalia

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 13 of 23 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 23 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 23 occurrencesLate Cretaceous156–154 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 3 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 3 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 7 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya100.5 Mya156 Mya93 Mya

23 occurrences of Amblotherium on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

23 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

4 formations

Morrison — 38.54°N, 105.22°WMorrison — 41.89°N, 106.00°WMorrison — 41.99°N, 106.08°WMorrison — 40.47°N, 109.18°WMorrison — 44.46°N, 104.73°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°WLa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WAtherfield Clay — 50.62°N, 1.34°W

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The named rock units Amblotherium 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.

Amblotherium and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Amblotherium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

212 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Amblotherium, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is not listed. 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 Tephrodornis pondicerianus pondicerianus (Gmelin, 1789)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Sarthak Awhad
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Amblotherium 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 itDryolestidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Osborn 1887