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Albanerpeton ✝

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From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanerpeton, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	37345	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=37345

Rank

genus (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Albanerpetontidae : Albanerpeton

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Triploblastica	Lankester 1877
-	Nephrozoa	Jondelius et al. 2002
-	Deuterostomia	Grobben 1908
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1847
subphylum	Vertebrata	Lamarck 1801
superclass	Gnathostomata	Gegenbauer 1874
-	Osteichthyes
-	Sarcopterygii	Romer 1955
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha
-	Tetrapoda
-	Temnospondyli
-	Lissamphibia
family	Albanerpetontidae	Fox and Naylor 1982
genus	Albanerpeton	Estes and Hoffstetter 1976

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Prosirenidae	stated with evidence	Estes and Hoffstetter, 1976
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	stated with evidence	Fox and Naylor, 1982
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Prosirenidae	implied	Carroll, 1988
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Prosirenidae	stated without evidence	Barbera and Macuglia, 1991
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	stated without evidence	McGowan and Ensom, 1997
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1999
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	stated without evidence	Gardner, 2000
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 2001
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	stated without evidence	Peng et al., 2001
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	stated with evidence	Gardner et al., 2003
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	implied	Böhme, 2008
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	stated without evidence	Gardner and Böhme, 2008
Albanerpeton	genus	belongs to Albanerpetontidae	implied	Böhme, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extinct

Taxon Size (PBDB)

First Recorded Appearance

130 - 125 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Last Recorded Appearance

3.20 - 2.59 Ma
Cenozoic

Environment

brackish,freshwater,terrestrial (based on Tetrapoda)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)

Diet

carnivore (based on Temnospondyli)

Taphonomy

phosphatic (based on Vertebrata)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

R. Estes and R. Hoffstetter. 1976. Les urodèles du Miocène de La Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère, France) [The urodeles from the Miocene of La Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère, France)]. Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sciences de la Terre 57:297-343

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanerpeton

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Albanerpeton arthridion ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	4	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	113 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous
Albanerpeton cifellii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	93.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Albanerpeton galaktion ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	16	85.8 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Albanerpeton gracilis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	17	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	83.5 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Albanerpeton inexpectatum ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	22	28.4 Ma Oligocene	11.1 Ma Miocene
Albanerpeton nexuosus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	28	105 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	70.6 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Albanerpeton pannonicus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1976	Albanerpeton Estes and Hoffstetter p. 308
1981	Albanerpeton Estes p. 20
1982	Albanerpeton Fox and Naylor p. 120
1988	Albanerpeton Carroll
1989	Albanerpeton Bryant p. 31
1991	Albanerpeton Barbera and Macuglia p. 421
1997	Albanerpeton McGowan and Ensom p. 113
1999	Albanerpeton Gardner p. 531

Year	Name and Author
2000	Albanerpeton Gardner p. 66
2001	Albanerpeton Gardner p. 334 fig. 8
2001	Albanerpeton Peng et al. p. 22
2003	Albanerpeton Gardner et al. p. 313
2005	Albanerpeton Venczel and Gardner
2008	Albanerpeton Böhme p. 165
2008	Albanerpeton Gardner and Böhme p. 179
2010	Albanerpeton Böhme p. 10

References

Estes R., Hoffstetter R. (1976) Les urodèles du Miocène de La Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère, France) [The urodeles from the Miocene of La Grive-Saint-Alban (Isère, France)], Bulletin du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sciences de la Terre 57, 297-343

Estes R. (1981) , Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 2. Gymnophiona, Caudata. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, xv-115

Fox R. C., Naylor B. G. (1982) A reconsideration of the relationships of the fossil amphibian Albanerpeton, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 19, 118-128

Carroll R. L. (1988) , Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolution, 1-698

Bryant L. J. (1989) Non-dinosaurian lower vertebrates across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary in northeastern Montana, University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 134, 1-107

McGowan G. J., Ensom P. C. (1997) Albanerpetontid amphibians from the Lower Cretaceous of the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society 118, 113-117

Gardner J. D. (1999) The amphibian Albanerpeton arthridion and the Aptian-Albian biogeography of albanerpetonids, Palaeontology 42 3, 529-544

Gardner J. D. (2001) Monophyly and affinities of albanerpetontid amphibians (Temnospondyli; Lissamphibia), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 131, 309-352

Peng J., Russell A. P., et al (2001) Vertebrate microsite assemblages (exclusive of mammals) from the Foremost and Oldman Formations of the Judith River Group (Campanian) of southeastern Alberta: an illustrated guide, Provincial Museum of Alberta, Natural History Occasional Paper 25, 1-54

Gardner J. D., Evans S. E., et al (2003) New albanerpetontid amphibians from the Early Cretaceous of Morocco and Middle Jurassic of England, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 48 2, 301-319

Venczel M., Gardner J. D. (2005) The geologically youngest albanerpetontid amphibian, from the Lower Pliocene of Hungary, Palaeontology 48 6, 1273-1300

Böhme M. (2008) Ectothermic vertebrates (Teleostei, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Testudines, Choristodera, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Upper Oligocene of Oberleichtersbach (Northern Bavaria, Germany), Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 260, 161-183

Gardner J. D., Böhme M. (2008) Review of the Albanerpetontidae (Lissamphibia), with comments on the paleoecological preferences of European Tertiary albanerpetontids, Vertebrate Microfossil Assemblages: Their Role in Paleoecology and Paleobiogeography, 178-218

Böhme M. (2010) Ectothermic vertebrates (Actinopterygii, Allocaudata, Urodela, Anura, Crocodylia, Squamata) from the Miocene of Sandelzhausen (Germany, Bavaria) and their implications for environment reconstruction and palaeoclimate, Paläontologische Zeitschrift 84 1, 3-41 doi:10.1007/s12542-010-0050-4

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