Lepospondyli

Lepospondyli

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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 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 326.9 Mya to 227.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 58 of 172 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 110 of 172 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 172 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 172 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 172 occurrencesLate Triassic333–328 Mya — about 1 occurrence328–324 Mya — about 2 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 1 occurrence320–316 Mya — about 12 occurrences316–311 Mya — about 3 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 24 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 5 occurrences303–298 Mya — about 11 occurrences298–294 Mya — about 8 occurrences294–290 Mya — about 26 occurrences290–285 Mya — about 8 occurrences285–281 Mya — about 19 occurrences281–277 Mya — about 27 occurrences277–272 Mya — about 15 occurrences272–268 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–264 Mya — about 1 occurrence264–259 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences259–255 Mya — about 1 occurrence255–251 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences238–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–225 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences225–220 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences220–216 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences216–212 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences212–208 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences208–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326.9 Mya227.3 Mya333 Mya203 Mya

172 occurrences of Lepospondyli 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

172 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

46 formations

Vale — 32.94°N, 99.77°WVale — 33.70°N, 99.60°WVale — 33.78°N, 99.47°WVale — 33.60°N, 99.25°WVale — 32.13°N, 99.75°WVale — 32.23°N, 99.83°WVale — 32.98°N, 99.85°WVale — 33.67°N, 99.78°WGreene — 39.71°N, 80.82°WGreene — 39.78°N, 80.55°WGreene — 39.05°N, 81.49°WGreene — 39.75°N, 79.84°WGreene — 39.78°N, 80.60°WGreene — 39.68°N, 80.31°WGreene — 39.80°N, 80.81°WGreene — 39.87°N, 80.68°WGreene — 39.99°N, 80.54°WGreene — 40.01°N, 80.69°WGreene — 39.86°N, 80.39°WGreene — 39.66°N, 80.40°WGreene — 39.63°N, 80.57°WGreene — 39.65°N, 80.53°WGreene — 39.63°N, 80.70°WGreene — 39.24°N, 81.46°WGreene — 39.24°N, 81.41°WArroyo — 33.77°N, 99.22°WArroyo — 33.76°N, 99.14°WArroyo — 33.70°N, 99.27°WArroyo — 33.59°N, 99.26°WArroyo — 33.73°N, 99.36°WArroyo — 33.97°N, 99.20°WKladno — 49.71°N, 13.21°EKladno — 49.81°N, 13.39°EWellington — 36.16°N, 97.34°WWellington — 36.74°N, 97.42°WWellington — 36.35°N, 97.43°WWellington — 36.34°N, 97.33°WHennessey — 34.19°N, 98.79°WHennessey — 35.17°N, 97.37°WJoggins — 45.70°N, 64.45°WLueders — 33.75°N, 99.12°WLueders — 33.75°N, 99.15°WChickasha — 35.99°N, 98.32°WChickasha — 35.91°N, 98.15°WBlack Prince Limestone — 31.73°N, 109.57°WCoolbaun Formation — 52.81°N, 7.20°WSangre de Cristo — 38.45°N, 105.84°WSangre de Cristo — 38.47°N, 105.86°WSangre de Cristo — 34.64°N, 107.18°WChoza — 33.82°N, 99.56°WAbo — 35.77°N, 106.69°WAbo — 33.07°N, 107.22°WAbo — 34.30°N, 106.54°WGarber Sandstone — 34.53°N, 98.89°WGarber Sandstone — 34.58°N, 98.85°WWashington — 39.76°N, 81.00°WWashington — 39.99°N, 80.58°WMiddle Coal Measures — 55.11°N, 1.52°WSlaný — 50.21°N, 13.68°ECumnock — 36.49°N, 79.32°WCumnock — 35.56°N, 79.29°WAdmiral — 33.62°N, 98.86°WCutler — 37.17°N, 109.85°WBead Mountain — 34.13°N, 98.62°WWaggoner Ranch — 33.82°N, 98.69°WKinkaid — 37.55°N, 88.97°W

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The named rock units Lepospondyli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 22 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Lepospondyli and its relatives

Permian

Where Lepospondyli and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

614 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Lepospondyli, 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

69 references

Each of the 172 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. 57 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 content1

Picture of Lepospondyli

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (von Zittel 1887)