Edops craigi

Edops is an extinct genus of temnospondyl amphibian from the Late Carboniferous - Early Permian periods. Unlike more advanced temnospondyls of the time, such as Eryops, Edops exhibited an archaic pattern of palatal bones, and still possessed various additional bones at the back of the skull. Edopoids also had particularly big premaxillae and proportionally small external nostrils. Within the clade, the most basal member seems to be Edops from the Early Permian Archer City Formation of the US, a broad-skulled animal with large palatal teeth.

Edops craigi

A Cynical Idealist · CC BY 4.0 · 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
EdopsPBDB
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 18 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 286 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesPermian304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences297–297 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 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–292 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–289 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–287 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–286 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304.2 Mya285.5 Mya

4 occurrences of Edops craigi on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

4 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

2 formations

Archer City — 33.30°N, 98.91°WArcher City — 33.43°N, 98.78°WPueblo — 33.61°N, 98.37°W

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

Edops craigi and its relatives

Permian

Where Edops craigi and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Edops craigi, 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

2 references

Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Edops craigi

Credit
A Cynical Idealist
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Edops craigi 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.

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 itEdops through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1936