Dipteronotus

Dipteronotus is an extinct genus of marine stem-neopterygian ray-finned fish that existed during the Middle and Late Triassic epochs in what is now Europe and Morocco. As a typical feature, it had several ridge scales in front of its dorsal fin that created a spine-like structure.

Dipteronotus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PerleididaePBDB
Diet
grazer, detritivorePBDB, for Perleididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 215.38 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 211.18 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 8 of 10 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 10 occurrencesLate Triassic248–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–240 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 1 occurrence238–237 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences232–230 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243.43 Mya215.38 Mya247.7 Mya210.5 Mya

10 occurrences of Dipteronotus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

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

8 formations

Besano — 45.91°N, 8.95°EOtter Sandstone — 50.67°N, 3.27°WBromsgrove Sandstone — 52.33°N, 2.08°WTimezgadiouine — 31.07°N, 8.93°WMeride — 45.88°N, 8.90°EProsanto — 46.77°N, 9.75°EDont — 46.74°N, 12.12°EErfurt — 49.08°N, 9.89°E

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The named rock units Dipteronotus 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.

Dipteronotus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Dipteronotus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

148 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Dipteronotus, 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

9 references

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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Dipteronotus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dipteronotus 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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itPerleididae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Egerton 1854