Copepteryx hexeris

No picture of Copepteryx hexeris was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Copepteryx hexeris itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Copepteryx hexeris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CopepteryxPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Coelurosauria
Life habit
ground dwelling, solitaryPBDB, for Theropoda
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Theropoda
Environment
marinePBDB, for Plotopteridae

Time the record covers

At most 4.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 27.3 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Oligocene — about 6 of 6 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 6 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–27 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–23 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences27.8 Mya22.5 Mya

6 occurrences of Copepteryx hexeris on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

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

4 formations

Yamaga — 33.85°N, 130.70°EYamaga — 33.86°N, 130.89°EWaita — 33.98°N, 130.84°EAinoshima — 33.99°N, 130.82°EAsagai Sandstone — 37.05°N, 140.88°E

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The named rock units Copepteryx hexeris 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.

Copepteryx hexeris and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Copepteryx hexeris and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Copepteryx hexeris, 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

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 Copepteryx hexeris was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Copepteryx hexeris itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Copepteryx hexeris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCopepteryx through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Olson and Hasegawa 1996