Pholiderpeton

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EogyrinidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 307 Mya.
10 occurrences of Pholiderpeton 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
10 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
- Middle Coal Measures Formation · Pennine Coal Measures Group3
- Lower Coal Measures Formation · Pennine Coal Measures Group2
- Point Edward Formation · Canso Group1
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The named rock units Pholiderpeton has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pholiderpeton and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Pholiderpeton and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Anthracosaurus russelli2 sites
- Baphetes kirkbyi2 sites
- Megalocephalus pachycephalus2 sites
- Batrachiderpeton reticulatum1 site
- Brachydectes1 site
- Ctenoptychius apicalis1 site
- Janassa bituminosa1 site
- Loxomma acutirhinus1 site
- Megalocephalus1 site
- Oestocephalus nanum1 site
- Palaeoherpeton decorum1 site
- Pleuracanthus cylindricus1 site
- Pleuroplax rankinei1 site
- Pteroplax cornutus1 site
- Strepsodus sauroides1 site
- Urocordylidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Pholiderpeton, 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
6 references- Handbuch der Palaoherpetologie / Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology Teil 5 / Part 5 Batrachosauria Teil A / Part A Anthracosauria5
- Scottish Carboniferous amphibian localities1
- The Skull and Skeleton of Eogyrinus attheyi Watson (Amphibia: Labyrinthodontia)1
- An embolomere jaw from the mid-Carboniferous of Nova Scotia1
- Croonian lecture.—The evolution and origin of the Amphibia1
- On a new labyrinthodont from Bradford1
Each of the 10 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.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Pholiderpeton
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- 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 Pholiderpeton 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 itEogyrinidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huxley 1869