Marmorerpeton

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Sits inside

CaudataPBDB

Diet

carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli

Life habit

amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli

Motility

actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

• Middle Jurassic100%

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.

Where Marmorerpeton and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic. Draw the map

• Caudata6 sites
• Cteniogenys6 sites
• Goniopholididae5 sites
• Mammalia5 sites
• Testudines5 sites
• Tritylodontidae5 sites
• Albanerpetontidae4 sites
• Choristodera4 sites
• Crocodylia4 sites
• Eupantotheria4 sites
• Fabrosauridae4 sites
• Lepidosauromorpha4 sites
• Ornithischia4 sites
• Pterosauria4 sites
• Scincomorpha4 sites
• Sphenodontia4 sites
• Stereognathus ooliticus4 sites
• Therapsida4 sites
• Anura3 sites
• Borealestes serendipitus3 sites
• Cryptodira3 sites
• Lepidotes3 sites
• Pleurosternidae3 sites
• Squamata3 sites

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Marmorerpeton, 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.

• The earliest known Salamanders (Amphibia, Caudata): A record from the Middle Jurassic of EnglandEvans et al., 1988 · Geobios · journal article3
• Small reptiles and amphibians from the Forest Marble (Middle Jurassic) of DorsetEvans, 1992 · Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society · journal article2
• Middle Jurassic fossils document an early stage in salamander evolutionJones et al., 2022 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · journal article1
• The Middle Jurassic vertebrate assemblage of Skye, ScotlandEvans et al., 2006 · 9th International Symposium on Mesozoic Terrestrial Ecosystems and Biota, Abstracts and Proceedings Volume, Natural History Museum, London · book/book chapter1
• Middle Jurassic microvertebrate assemblages from the British IslesEvans and Milner, 1994 · In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods, N. C. Fraser and H.-D. Sues (eds.), Cambridge University Press · book/book chapter1
• A new Bathonian (Middle Jurassic) microvertebrate site, within the Chipping Norton Limestone Formation at Honsleasow Quarry, GloucestershireMetcalf et al., 1992 · Proceedings of the Geologists' Association · journal article1

Each of the 9 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.

What may have been alongside itCaudata through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Evans et al. 1988