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Doleserpeton

Description

Doleserpeton is an extinct, monospecific genus of dissorophoidean temnospondyl within the family Amphibamidae that lived during the Upper Permian, 285 million years ago. Doleserpeton is represented by a single species, Doleserpeton annectens, which was first described by John R. Bolt in 1969. Fossil evidence of Doleserpeton was recovered from the Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. The genus name Doleserpeton is derived from the initial discovery site in Dolese quarry of Oklahoma and the Greek root "serp-", meaning "low or close to the ground". This transitional fossil displays primitive traits of amphibians that allowed for successful adaptation from aquatic to terrestrial environments. In many phylogenies, lissamphibians appear as the sister group of Doleserpeton.


Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)4815799https://www.gbif.org/species/4815799
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)37046https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37046
Rankgenus
Taxonomy (GBIF)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Amphibia : Amphibamidae : Doleserpeton
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Amphibamidae : Doleserpeton
Taxonomic Status (GBIF)accepted
Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)
RankNameAuthor
-Eukaryota
-OpisthokontaCavalier-Smith 1987
kingdomAnimalia
-TriploblasticaLankester 1877
-NephrozoaJondelius et al. 2002
-DeuterostomiaGrobben 1908
phylumChordataHaeckel 1847
subphylumVertebrataLamarck 1801
superclassGnathostomataGegenbauer 1874
-Osteichthyes
-SarcopterygiiRomer 1955
subclassDipnotetrapodomorpha
subclassTetrapodomorpha
-Tetrapoda
-Temnospondyli
-EutemnospondyliSchoch 2013
-Rhachitomi
-Dissorophoidea
-XerodromesSchoch and Milner 2014
familyAmphibamidaeMoodie 1912
genusDoleserpetonBolt 1969
Scientific NameDoleserpeton Bolt, 1969
Name Published InScience, N. Y. 166
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Doleserpetongenusbelongs to Doleserpetontidaestated without evidenceBolt, 1969
Doleserpetongenusbelongs to DoleserpetontidaeimpliedCarroll, 1988
Doleserpetongenusbelongs to Amphibamidaestated with evidenceSchoch and Rubidge, 2005
Doleserpetongenusbelongs to Amphibamidaestated without evidenceAnderson et al., 2008
Doleserpetongenusbelongs to Amphibamidaestated with evidenceBourget and Anderson, 2011
Doleserpetongenusbelongs to Temnospondylistated without evidenceMaddin et al., 2012
Doleserpetongenusbelongs to Amphibamidaestated with evidenceSchoch, 2013
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)2
First Recorded Appearance290 - 268 Ma
Permian
Last Recorded Appearance290 - 268 Ma
Permian
Environmentbrackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)
Dietcarnivore (based on Temnospondyli)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)J. R. Bolt. 1969. Lissamphibian Origins: Possible Protolissamphibian from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma. Science 166:888-891
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doleserpeton

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

NameStatusCommon Name(s)Fossil OccurrencesOldestYoungest
Doleserpeton annectens
species
accepted (GBIF)
listed (PBDB)
1290 Ma
Permian
290 Ma
Permian

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1969Doleserpeton Bolt p. 888
1988Doleserpeton Carroll
2005Doleserpeton Schoch and Rubidge p. 517 fig. 8
2008Doleserpeton Anderson et al. p. 70 fig. 9
2011Doleserpeton Bourget and Anderson p. 43
2012Doleserpeton Maddin et al.
2013Doleserpeton Schoch

References

Bolt J. R. (1969) Lissamphibian Origins: Possible Protolissamphibian from the Lower Permian of Oklahoma, Science 166, 888-891
Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698
Schoch R. R., Rubidge B. S. (2005) The amphibamid Micropholis from the Lystrosaurus Assemblage Zone of South Africa, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 25 3, 502-522
Anderson J. S., Henrici A. C., et al (2008) Georgenthalia clavinasica, a new genus and species of dissorophoid temnospondyl from the Early Permian of Germany, and the relationships of the family Amphibamidae, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 1, 61-75
Bourget H., Anderson J. S. (2011) A new amphibamid (Temnospondyli: Dissorophoidea) from the Early Permian of Texas, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 31 1, 32-49 doi:10.1080/02724634.2011.539652
Maddin H. C., Jenkins Jr F. A., et al (2012) The Braincase of Eocaecilia micropodia (Lissamphibia, Gymnophiona) and the Origin of Caecilians, PLoS One 7 12, e50743 doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050743
Schoch R. R. (2013) The evolution of major temnospondyl clades: an inclusive phylogenetic analysis, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology doi:10.1080/14772019.2012.699006
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
SN2000/Schoch & Rubidge, 2005 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Science, N. Y. 166 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Milner, 2003 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
 
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