Berycopsis germanus
No picture of Berycopsis germanus 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 Berycopsis germanus, 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 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Berycopsis germanus on record, most of them in the Late 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
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Berycopsis germanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Berycopsis germanus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Berycopsis germanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
54 taxa- Sardinius cordieri3 sites
- Benthesikyme armatus2 sites
- Echidnocephalus tenuicaudus2 sites
- Echidnocephalus troscheli2 sites
- Eurycarpus nanodactylus2 sites
- Istieus grandis2 sites
- Osmeroides cretaceus2 sites
- Pelargorhynchus dercetiformis2 sites
- Penaeus tenuicauda2 sites
- Sardinioides monasterii2 sites
- Sicyonia roemeri2 sites
- Acrogaster brevicostatus1 site
- Acrogaster parvus1 site
- Astacidea1 site
- Berycopsis paucoradius1 site
- Brachyspondylus cretaceus1 site
- Cheirothrix guestphalicus1 site
- Clupea guestfalica1 site
- Dactylopogon grandis1 site
- Dercetis elongatus1 site
- Gampsurus dubius1 site
- Histiothrissa macrodactyla1 site
- Hoplopteryx antiquus1 site
- Hoplopteryx gibbus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Berycopsis germanus, 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
4 references- Fossile Fische, Krebse und Pflanzen aus den Plattenkalken der jüngsten Kreide aus Westfalen3
- Dritter nachtrag. Fische der oberen Kreide Westfalens1
- Neue Fische und Krebse aus der Kreide von Westfalen1
- Ueber einige Wirbelthiere, Kruster und Cephalopoden der Westfälischen Kreide1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Berycopsis germanus 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 Berycopsis germanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Berycopsis germanus 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 itBerycopsis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1837)