Berycopsis elegans
No picture of Berycopsis elegans 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 Berycopsis elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BerycopsisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Berycopsis elegans on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
5 formations
- Beer Head Limestone Formation · Chalk Group1
- Zig Zag Chalk Formation · Chalk Group1
- Hollywell Formation1
- New Pit Formation1
- Holleywell, New Pit, Lewes Formation · White Chalk Group1
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The named rock units Berycopsis elegans has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Berycopsis elegans and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Berycopsis elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
70 taxa- Caproberyx superbus2 sites
- Hoplopteryx simus2 sites
- ? Neorhombolepis punctatus1 site
- "Aipichthys" nuchalus1 site
- "Coelodus" fimbriatus1 site
- "Lepidotes" pustulatus1 site
- "Pycnodus" scrobiculatus1 site
- Acrognathus boops1 site
- Acrotemnus faba1 site
- Anomoeodus angustus1 site
- Anomoeodus pauciseriale1 site
- Anomoeodus willetti1 site
- Apateodus lanceolatus1 site
- Apateodus striatus1 site
- Apsopelix anglicus1 site
- Aulolepis typus1 site
- Belonostomus cinctus1 site
- Cimolichthys levesiensis1 site
- Coniasaurus crassidens1 site
- Ctenothrissa radians1 site
- Ctenothrissa typus1 site
- Dercetidae1 site
- Dercetis elongatus1 site
- Dinelops ornatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Berycopsis elegans, 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 fossil fishes of the English Chalk, Part I4
- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstatten1
- Dixon, 18501
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Berycopsis elegans 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 Berycopsis elegans, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Berycopsis elegans 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itBerycopsis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dixon 1850