Branchiosaurus

Branchiosaurus is a genus of small, prehistoric amphibians. Fossils have been discovered in strata dating from the late Pennsylvanian Epoch to the Permian Period. The taxa may be invalid; the material referred to the genus may be juvenile specimens of larger amphibians.

Branchiosaurus

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 3.0 · 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
BranchiosauridaePBDB
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 least 8.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPermian316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–299 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307.4 Mya298.9 Mya315.7 Mya293 Mya

8 occurrences of Branchiosaurus 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

8 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

Kladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°EKladno — 49.81°N, 13.39°EConemaugh — 41.83°N, 75.88°WVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°EVrchlabi — 50.57°N, 15.39°E

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The named rock units Branchiosaurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Branchiosaurus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Branchiosaurus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

159 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Branchiosaurus, 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

6 references

Each of the 8 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 content2

Picture of Branchiosaurus

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
kenchoo
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itBranchiosauridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fritsch 1876