Dissorophoidea

Dissorophoidea is a clade of medium-sized, temnospondyl amphibians that appeared during the Moscovian in Euramerica, and continued through to the Late Permian and the Early Triassic of Gondwana. They are distinguished by various details of the skull, and many species seem to have been well adapted for life on land.

Dissorophoidea

Jay Malone from Casselberry, FL, USA · CC BY 2.0 · 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
RhachitomiPBDB
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 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 318.6 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 247 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 255 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 69 of 255 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 172 of 255 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 14 of 255 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 255 occurrences361–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences357–353 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–334 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences334–330 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences330–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 4 occurrences315–311 Mya — about 5 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 23 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 9 occurrences303–299 Mya — about 23 occurrences299–295 Mya — about 44 occurrences295–291 Mya — about 34 occurrences291–287 Mya — about 27 occurrences287–284 Mya — about 24 occurrences284–280 Mya — about 12 occurrences280–276 Mya — about 12 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 6 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 3 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 7 occurrences264–260 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences260–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–253 Mya — about 1 occurrence253–249 Mya — about 12 occurrences249–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences318.6 Mya251.902 Mya361 Mya245 Mya

255 occurrences of Dissorophoidea on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

255 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

67 formations

Meisenheim — 49.75°N, 7.70°EMeisenheim — 49.59°N, 7.47°EMeisenheim — 49.73°N, 7.77°EMeisenheim — 49.71°N, 7.60°EMeisenheim — 49.58°N, 7.70°EMeisenheim — 49.57°N, 7.44°EMeisenheim — 49.78°N, 7.77°EMeisenheim — 49.73°N, 7.69°EMeisenheim — 49.59°N, 7.76°EMeisenheim — 49.41°N, 7.78°EArroyo — 33.81°N, 99.20°WArroyo — 33.76°N, 99.14°WArroyo — 33.70°N, 99.27°WPottsville — 33.81°N, 87.17°WPottsville — 33.90°N, 87.52°WPottsville — 33.94°N, 87.22°WKatberg — 31.87°S, 24.55°EKatberg — 32.11°S, 26.51°EKatberg — 31.30°S, 25.82°EKatberg — 30.50°S, 25.97°EKatberg — 28.28°S, 29.13°EKatberg — 30.42°S, 26.83°ECutler — 36.30°N, 106.35°WCutler — 37.17°N, 109.85°WCutler — 38.01°N, 108.04°WCutler — 36.16°N, 106.65°WCutler — 36.12°N, 106.62°WKladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°EKladno — 49.81°N, 13.39°EArcher City — 33.58°N, 98.65°WGoldlauterer — 50.86°N, 10.57°EGoldlauterer — 50.64°N, 10.75°EGoldlauterer — 50.68°N, 10.86°EGoldlauterer — 50.71°N, 10.64°EBelle Plains — 33.44°N, 98.54°WBelle Plains — 33.74°N, 98.90°WBelle Plains — 33.63°N, 98.95°WEl Cobre Canyon — 36.16°N, 106.66°WEl Cobre Canyon — 36.14°N, 106.62°WEl Cobre Canyon — 36.23°N, 106.75°WTambach — 50.81°N, 10.62°ECarbondale — 41.27°N, 88.14°WCarbondale — 41.22°N, 88.21°WGoldlauter — 50.87°N, 10.50°EGoldlauter — 50.80°N, 10.48°EBortewitz — 51.20°N, 12.93°EVrchlabi — 50.57°N, 15.39°EVrchlabi — 50.62°N, 15.60°EPetrolia — 33.69°N, 99.02°WPetrolia — 33.64°N, 98.90°WBugarikta — 64.00°N, 100.00°ENocona — 33.83°N, 98.09°WNocona — 33.72°N, 98.34°WAbo — 36.20°N, 106.60°WAbo — 35.77°N, 106.69°WAbo — 34.30°N, 106.54°WAbo/Cutler — 36.16°N, 106.64°WAbo/Cutler — 36.18°N, 106.67°WIlmenau — 50.88°N, 10.45°EOberhof — 50.71°N, 10.72°EOberhof — 50.82°N, 10.59°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°EAdmiral — 33.62°N, 98.86°WAdmiral — 33.82°N, 98.69°W

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The named rock units Dissorophoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 43 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 51 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dissorophoidea and its relatives

Permian

Where Dissorophoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

750 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 145 sites for Dissorophoidea, 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

108 references

Each of the 255 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. 96 further references are not listed. 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 Dissorophoidea

Credit
Jay Malone from Casselberry, FL, USA
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Dissorophoidea indet. · fmnh:PR 558

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 itRhachitomi through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bolt 1969)