Australosomus kochi
No picture of Australosomus kochi 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 Australosomus kochi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AustralosomusPBDB
- Diet
- microcarnivore, carnivorePBDB, for Australosomus
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 2.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 254.14 Mya to 251.902 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 259.857 Mya to 251.1 Mya.
10 occurrences of Australosomus kochi on record. 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
10 occurrences- Permian10%
- Early Triassic90%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Australosomus kochi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Found in the same rock
22 taxa- Birgeria groenlandica5 sites
- Boreosomus piveteaui4 sites
- Pteronisculus arcticus3 sites
- Bobasatrania groenlandica2 sites
- Laugia groenlandica2 sites
- Pteronisculus aldingeri2 sites
- Arctacanthus uncinatus1 site
- Australosomus pholidopleuroides1 site
- Birgeria1 site
- Broughia perleidoides1 site
- Helmolepis gracilis1 site
- Hypophiceras gracile1 site
- Laugia1 site
- Ospia whitei1 site
- Otoceras woodwardi1 site
- Polyacrodus claveringensis1 site
- Pteronisculus1 site
- Pteronisculus gunnari1 site
- Pteronisculus magna1 site
- Pteronisculus stensioi1 site
- Teffichthys stoschiensis1 site
- Tompophiceras pascoei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Australosomus kochi, 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
2 references- Studies on Triassic Fishes 2. Australosomus and Birgeria8
- Triassic Fishes from East Greenland collected by the Danish expeditions in 1929-19312
Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Australosomus kochi 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 Australosomus kochi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Australosomus kochi 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 itAustralosomus through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stensiö 1932)