Austrolepidotes cuyanus

Austrolepidotes is an extinct genus of prehistoric freshwater ray-finned fish from the Early Cretaceous. It contains a single species, A. cuyanus from the Lagarcito Formation of Argentina.

No picture of Austrolepidotes cuyanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Austrolepidotes cuyanus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Time the record covers

At most 13 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 113.2 Mya and 100.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 1 occurrence113–113 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–111 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–110 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–109 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–108 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–107 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences107–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–106 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences106–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–105 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–104 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences104–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–103 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences103–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–102 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–101 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences113.7 Mya100 Mya

1 occurrence of Austrolepidotes cuyanus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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

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

Lagarcito — 32.50°S, 66.99°W

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The named rock units Austrolepidotes cuyanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Austrolepidotes cuyanus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Austrolepidotes cuyanus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Austrolepidotes cuyanus, 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 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Austrolepidotes cuyanus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Austrolepidotes cuyanus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

No 3D scan of Austrolepidotes cuyanus 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.