Megamolgophis

Megamolgophis is an extinct genus of eel-like tetrapod, possibly belonging to the group Lysorophia. Fossils from this genus have been found in the Allegheny mountains of the eastern United States. The genus is endemic to geological formations of this area, such as the Greene and Washington formations of the Early Permian Dunkard Group, as well as the Pennsylvanian Conemaugh Group.

No picture of Megamolgophis 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 Megamolgophis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LysorophiaPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At least 6.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 300.3 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesPermian308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences293–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences290–290 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300.3 Mya293.52 Mya307.9 Mya289.6 Mya

2 occurrences of Megamolgophis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

2 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

1 formation

Greene — 39.06°N, 81.38°W

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The named rock units Megamolgophis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megamolgophis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Megamolgophis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Megamolgophis, 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 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Megamolgophis 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 Megamolgophis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megamolgophis 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 itLysorophia through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1952