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Jammerbergia fossil map

Where fossils of Jammerbergia have been found, shown on the Earth as it looked about 252 million years ago and on today’s map.

Dots are fossil collections recorded in the Paleobiology Database. The “then” view moves today’s fossil sites back to their positions 252 million years ago (the time slice nearest the median age of the fossils) using the Merdith et al. (2021) plate model; positions are approximate. Open on the timeline map →

Jammerbergia
Image: Smokeybjb, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
GroupEarly tetrapods & amphibians
Lived247–241.464 million years ago
PeriodsTriassic
FamilyMastodonsauridae
Named byDamiani and Hancox 2003
Fossil records1 occurrences at 1 locations (PBDB)
Found inSouth Africa
Rock formationstxn:37107

About Jammerbergia

Jammerbergia is an extinct genus of mastodonsauroid temnospondyl within the family Mastodonsauridae. The only species is Jammerbergia formops, named in 2003 from the Cynognathus Assemblage Zone of South Africa.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Jammerbergia (revision 1379928548), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0; introduction excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Ages, family, authority and fossil records: Paleobiology Database, accessed 23 October 2026. Ages are those of the rock layers the fossils were found in. Wikidata: Q6147939.

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