Koalliella
Koalliella is an extinct genus of prehistoric salamander. It is the oldest known salamandrid.
No picture of Koalliella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Koalliella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SalamandridaePBDB
- 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 3.3 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 59.24 Mya and 56 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Koalliella on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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- Paleocene100%
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
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The named rock units Koalliella has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Koalliella and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Koalliella and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Adapisoriculidae1 site
- Afrodon1 site
- Amphisbaenidae1 site
- Aves1 site
- Berruchelus russelli1 site
- Berrulestes pellouini1 site
- Berrulestes phelizoni1 site
- Berrulestes poirieri1 site
- Berruornis orbisantiqui1 site
- Berruvius lasseroni1 site
- Bufonidae1 site
- Bustylus cernaysi1 site
- Bustylus germanicus1 site
- Camptognathosaurus walbeckensis1 site
- Cernaycerta duchaussoisi1 site
- Chiromyoides campanicus1 site
- Cryptodira1 site
- Dipavali petri1 site
- Diplocynodon remensis1 site
- Dissacus europaeus1 site
- Eolacerta1 site
- Gastornis parisiensis1 site
- Gigarton louisi1 site
- Gigarton meyeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Koalliella, 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
1 referenceEach 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Koalliella was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Koalliella, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Koalliella 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
- Source
- Wikipedia, “Koalliella”
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSalamandridae through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herre 1950