Batrachichnus

Batrachichnus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmphibiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 71 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 247 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 9 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences315–311 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–287 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences256–253 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences253–249 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–245 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences323.4 Mya251.902 Mya361 Mya245 Mya

9 occurrences of Batrachichnus 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

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

4 formations

Carapacha — 38.19°S, 65.93°WMauch Chunk — 40.67°N, 76.19°WPottawatomie — 39.16°N, 94.48°WGalmous — 33.30°N, 6.51°W

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The named rock units Batrachichnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Batrachichnus and its relatives

Permian

Where Batrachichnus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Batrachichnus, 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

7 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. 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 Batrachichnus

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Batrachichnus 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 itAmphibia through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodworth 1900