Atopocephala watsoni
No picture of Atopocephala watsoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Atopocephala watsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtopocephalaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 201.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Atopocephala watsoni on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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
1 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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.
Atopocephala watsoni and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Atopocephala watsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Ceratodus kannemeyeri1 site
- Cleithrolepidina minor1 site
- Cleithrolepis extoni1 site
- Daedalichthys higginsi1 site
- Dicellopyge lissocephalus1 site
- Dicellopyge macrodentata1 site
- Dictyopyge formosa1 site
- Helichthys browni1 site
- Hydropessum kannemeyeri1 site
- Lissodus africanus1 site
- Meidiichthys browni1 site
- Pholidophorus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Atopocephala watsoni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Atopocephala watsoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Atopocephala watsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Atopocephala watsoni was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAtopocephala through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brough 1934