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Apateon

Osteichthyes - Temnospondyli - Branchiosauridae

Taxonomy

Apateon was named by von Meyer (1844). It is not extant.

It was assigned to Labyrinthodontes by Roemer (1856); to Ganocephala by Owen (1859), Owen (1860); to Discosauridae by Carroll et al. (1972); and to Branchiosauridae by Carroll (1988), Schoch (2013), Schoch and Milner (2014).

Species

A. caducus, A. dracyi, A. flagrifer (syn. Branchiosaurus brachyrhynchus), A. gracilis, A. intermedius, A. kontheri, A. pedestris (syn. Salamandrella petrolei), A. umbrosus, Salamandrella keyseringli

Species lacking formal opinion data

A. umbrosa

Synonyms

Protriton was named by Gaudry (1876).

It was synonymized subjectively with Apateon by Schoch and Milner (2014).
Salamandrella was named by Gaudry (1875). It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Apateon by Schoch and Milner (2014).

It was assigned to Hynobiidae by Frank and Ramus (1996).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1844	Apateon von Meyer
1856	Apateon Roemer p. 784
1859	Apateon Owen p. 132
1860	Apateon Owen p. 168
1875	Salamandrella Gaudry
1876	Protriton Gaudry
1972	Apateon Carroll et al. p. 36
1988	Apateon Carroll
1996	Salamandrella Frank and Ramus
2013	Apateon Schoch
2014	Apateon Schoch and Milner

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Deuterostomia
phylum	Chordata	Haeckel 1874
subphylum	Vertebrata
superclass	Gnathostomata
class	Osteichthyes
subclass	Sarcopterygii	()
subclass	Dipnotetrapodomorpha	(Nelson 2006)
subclass	Tetrapodomorpha	()

Rank	Name	Author
—	Tetrapoda
class	Amphibia
order	Temnospondyli	()
—	Eutemnospondyli
—	Rhachitomi	()
—	Dissorophoidea	()
—	Xerodromes
—	Amphibamiformes
family	Branchiosauridae	Fritsch 1883
genus	Apateon	von Meyer 1844

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. †Apateon von Meyer 1844

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†Apateon caducus Ammon 1889

†Apateon dracyi Boy 1972

†Apateon flagrifer Whittard 1930

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Invalid names: Branchiosaurus brachyrhynchus Watson 1963 [synonym]

†Apateon gracilis Credner 1881

†Apateon intermedius Werneburg 1996

†Apateon kontheri Werneburg 1988

†Apateon pedestris von Meyer 1840

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Invalid names: Salamandrella petrolei Gaudry 1875 [synonym]

†Apateon umbrosus Fritsch 1879

Invalid names: Protriton Gaudry 1876 [synonym], Salamandrella Gaudry 1875 [synonym]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

phosphaticsubp

Environment:

brackish, freshwater, terrestrialuc

Locomotion:

actively mobilesubo

Life habit:

amphibioussubo

Diet:

carnivoresubo

Dispersal:

waterc

Created:

2009-07-20 21:44:54

Modified:

2009-07-20 23:44:54

Source: subo = suborder, c = class, subp = subphylum, uc = unranked clade

References: Kiessling 2004, Hendy et al. 2009, Uhen 2004, Carroll 1988

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Gzhelian to the top of the Cisuralian or 303.70000 to 274.40000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 300.3 Ma

Collections (35 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Stephanian	307.4 - 300.3	France (Saône-et-Loire)	Branchiosaurus petrolei (236920)
Gzhelian	303.7 - 298.9	Germany (Thuringia)	A. dracyi (176543) A. intermedius (180675)
Gzhelian - Asselian	303.7 - 293.52	Germany (Rhineland-Palatine)	A. pedestris (180798)
Kuzel	300.3 - 297.7	Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)	A. pedestris (180803)
Asselian	298.9 - 293.52	Czechia (Krkonose)	A. umbrosa (232614)
Asselian	298.9 - 293.52	Germany (Rhineland-Palatine)	A. pedestris (180802 180804 180805)
Asselian	298.9 - 293.52	Germany (Thuringia)	A. dracyi (176531 181127) A. flagrifer (180778 181129 181130) A. kontheri, Branchiosaurus flagrifer (180765)
Asselian	298.9 - 293.52	Germany (Rhineland-Palatinate)	A. pedestris, A. caducus (85451 180796)
Asselian - Sakmarian	298.9 - 290.1	Germany (Rhineland-Palatine)	A. pedestris (180800 180806) A. pedestris, Branchiosaurus caducus (180797)
Asselian - Sakmarian	298.9 - 290.1	France	A. gracilis (34797)
Autunian	298.9 - 283.3	Germany (Thuringia)	A. flagrifer (181128)
Autunian	298.9 - 283.3	France (Burgundy)	A. pedestris (180801)
Autunian	298.9 - 283.3	Germany (Rhineland-Palatine)	A. pedestris, A. caducus (178736)
Autunian	298.9 - 283.3	France (Saone et Loire)	A. pedestris (176500)
Autunian	298.9 - 283.3	Germany (Mittelsachsen)	A. dracyi (176535)
Autunian	298.9 - 283.3	France (Saone et Laoire)	Branchiosaurus dracyi (180674)
Cisuralian	298.9 - 274.4	Czechia	A. sp. (180794)
Autunian - Permian	298.9 - 251.902	Italy (Sardinia)	Branchiosaurus petrolei (28463 28464 28465)
Sakmarian	293.52 - 290.1	Germany (Thüringia)	A. flagrifer (180795)
Sakmarian	293.52 - 290.1	Germany (Thuringia)	A. flagrifer (180764)
Sakmarian	293.52 - 290.1	Germany (Saxony)	Branchiosaurus gracilis (52522)
Rotliegendes	283.3 - 259.51	Czechia (Boheme)	Branchiosaurus umbrosus (58139)