Erpetopus

Erpetopus

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
TetrapodaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 274.4 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 283.3 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Permian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle Triassic284–283 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences280–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–277 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–259 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences259–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–254 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences254–252 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences252–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences244–242 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274.4 Mya247 Mya284.1 Mya240.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Erpetopus 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

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

3 formations

Keuper Waterstones — 52.97°N, 1.15°WChoza — 32.37°N, 100.00°WIkakern — 30.85°N, 9.00°W

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

Erpetopus and its relatives

Permian

Where Erpetopus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Erpetopus, 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

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. 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 Erpetopus

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

No 3D scan of Erpetopus 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 itTetrapoda through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moodie 1929