Batrachomorpha

The Batrachomorpha are a clade containing extant and extinct amphibians that are more closely related to modern amphibians than they are to mammals and reptiles. According to many analyses they include the extinct Temnospondyli; some show that they include the Lepospondyli instead. The name traditionally indicated a more limited group.

Batrachomorpha

Wang, Y., Evans, S. E. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
EutetrapodaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 11 million years on record.

The record covers at least 259.857 Mya to 248.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 266.9 Mya to 247 Mya.

Permian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrences267–267 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–263 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences263–262 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences262–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences251–251 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences259.857 Mya248.6 Mya267.4 Mya246.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Batrachomorpha on record, most of them in the Early Triassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

4 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

Petropavlovskaya — 52.52°N, 55.70°EPetropavlovka — 51.45°N, 55.20°EKopanskaya — 52.67°N, 52.19°EKama Region Third — 55.03°N, 48.88°E

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

Batrachomorpha and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Batrachomorpha and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Batrachomorpha, 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 4 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 Batrachomorpha

Credit
Wang, Y., Evans, S. E.
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Batrachomorpha 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.

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 itEutetrapoda through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Säve-Söderbergh 1934