Dendrerpeton acadianum

Dendrerpeton acadianum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrerpetonPBDB
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 1.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 318.7 Mya and 316.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferous319–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319.2 Mya316.4 Mya

3 occurrences of Dendrerpeton acadianum 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

3 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

1 formation

Joggins — 45.70°N, 64.45°W

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

Dendrerpeton acadianum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dendrerpeton acadianum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dendrerpeton acadianum, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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

Media content1

Picture of Dendrerpeton acadianum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Dendrerpeton acadianum 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.

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What may have been alongside itDendrerpeton through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1853