Dimetropus

Searched as Dimetropus leisneranus. The Paleobiology Database treats Dimetropus as the accepted name.

Dimetropus

Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ReptiliaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 318.7 Mya and 307.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319.2 Mya306.9 Mya

1 occurrence of Dimetropus 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

1 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

Galmous — 33.30°N, 6.51°W

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

Dimetropus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dimetropus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dimetropus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Dimetropus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dimetropus 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 itReptilia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer and Price 1940