Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis
No picture of Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CryptobranchusPBDB
- 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 most 4.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 60.9 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
2 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
52 taxa- Aatotomus placochton1 site
- Adunator meizon1 site
- Amphiumidae1 site
- Anura1 site
- Arctocyon acrogenius1 site
- Arctocyon corrugatus1 site
- Arotus hieroglyphus1 site
- Bessoecetor krausei1 site
- Bessoecetor pilodontus1 site
- Carpodaptes stonleyi1 site
- Champsosaurus gigas1 site
- Chriacus baldwini1 site
- Cyriacotherium argyreum1 site
- Didymictis dellensis1 site
- Ectocion cedrus1 site
- Ectocion osbornianus1 site
- Ectypodus powelli1 site
- Eulipotyphla1 site
- Foxomomys vossae1 site
- Ignacius frugivorus1 site
- Labidolemur soricoides1 site
- Leptacodon1 site
- Litocherus lacunatus1 site
- Litocherus zygeus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis, 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- Mesozoic and Palaeocene lissamphibian assemblages of North America: a comprehensive review1
- Cryptobranchid salamanders from the Paleocene and Miocene of Saskatchewan1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cryptobranchus saskatchewanensis 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 itCryptobranchus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Naylor 1981