Ampheristus toliapicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmpheristusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ampheristus toliapicus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
3 occurrences- Eocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
1 formation
- London Clay Formation · Thames Group3
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The named rock units Ampheristus toliapicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ampheristus toliapicus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Ampheristus toliapicus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
258 taxa- Osmeroides insignis3 sites
- Acipenser toliapicus2 sites
- Aglyptorhynchus sulcatus2 sites
- Aglyptorhynchus venablesi2 sites
- Albula oweni2 sites
- Anomotodon sheppeyensis2 sites
- Argillichthys toombsi2 sites
- Beerichthys2 sites
- Bramoides brieni2 sites
- Bucklandium diluvii2 sites
- Carcharias hopei2 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus2 sites
- Dasornis emuinus2 sites
- Dasornis toliapica2 sites
- Egertonia isodonta2 sites
- Elops2 sites
- Enniskillenus radiatus2 sites
- Eocoelopoma2 sites
- Eothynnus salmoneus2 sites
- Esocelops cavifrons2 sites
- Eutrichiurides winkleri2 sites
- Goniocranion arambourgi2 sites
- Gymnosarda prisca2 sites
- Isistius trituratus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ampheristus toliapicus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
3 references- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstatten1
- Observations on the London Clay excavation at Aveley, Essex1
- Casier, 19661
Each of the 3 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ampheristus toliapicus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ampheristus toliapicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ampheristus toliapicus was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAmpheristus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. König 1825