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Albanerpeton nexuosus

Description
Source Data
SourceIDLink
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)67753https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=67753
Rankspecies (PBDB)
Taxonomy (PBDB)Life : Animalia : Chordata : Osteichthyes : Temnospondyli : Albanerpetontidae : Albanerpeton : Albanerpeton nexuosus
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
-Lissamphibia
familyAlbanerpetontidaeFox and Naylor 1982
genusAlbanerpetonEstes and Hoffstetter 1976
speciesAlbanerpeton nexuosusEstes 1981
Opinions (PBDB)
NameRankOpinionEvidenceAuthor
Albanerpeton nexuosusspeciesbelongs to Albanerpetonstated with evidenceEstes, 1981
Albanerpeton nexuosusspeciesbelongs to AlbanerpetonimpliedBryant, 1989
Albanerpeton nexuosusspeciesbelongs to Albanerpetonstated without evidenceGardner, 1999
Albanerpeton nexuosusspeciesbelongs to Albanerpetonstated with evidenceGardner, 2000
Albanerpeton nexuosusspeciesbelongs to Albanerpetonstated without evidenceGardner, 2000
Albanerpeton nexuosusspeciesbelongs to Albanerpetonstated with evidenceGardner et al., 2003
Albanerpeton nexuosusspeciesbelongs to Albanerpetonstated without evidenceGardner and Böhme, 2008
Status (PBDB)extinct
Taxon Size (PBDB)1
First Recorded Appearance105 - 94 Ma
Cretaceous
Last Recorded Appearance70.6 - 66.0 Ma
Late/Upper Cretaceous
Environmentfreshwater (based on Albanerpeton nexuosus)
Motilityactively mobile (based on Temnospondyli)
Dietcarnivore (based on Temnospondyli)
Taphonomyphosphatic (based on Vertebrata)
Primary Reference (PBDB)R. Estes. 1981. Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 2. Gymnophiona, Caudata. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart
Wikipediahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albanerpeton_nexuosus

Synonymy List

YearName and Author
1981Albanerpeton nexuosus Estes p. 24
1989Albanerpeton nexuosus Bryant p. 31
1999Albanerpeton nexuosus Gardner p. 531
2000Albanerpeton nexuosus Gardner p. 66
2003Albanerpeton nexuosus Gardner et al. p. 315
2005Albanerpeton nexuosus Venczel and Gardner
2008Albanerpeton nexuosum Gardner and Böhme p. 179

References

Estes R. (1981) , Handbuch der Paläoherpetologie/Encyclopedia of Paleoherpetology. Part 2. Gymnophiona, Caudata. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, xv-115
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
Gardner J. D. (1999) The amphibian Albanerpeton arthridion and the Aptian-Albian biogeography of albanerpetonids, Palaeontology 42 3, 529-544
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
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
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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