Palaeoherpeton decorum

Palaeoherpeton decorum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeoherpetonPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 3.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 313.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 311.46 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous319–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316.9 Mya313.8 Mya319.2 Mya311 Mya

2 occurrences of Palaeoherpeton decorum 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

Parrot Coal — 56.20°N, 3.00°W

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The named rock units Palaeoherpeton decorum 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.

Palaeoherpeton decorum and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Palaeoherpeton decorum and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

2 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Palaeoherpeton decorum, 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

Media content1

Picture of Palaeoherpeton decorum

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Palaeoherpeton decorum 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 itPalaeoherpeton through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Watson 1926)