Gigapteryx tethyestris
No picture of Gigapteryx tethyestris 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 Gigapteryx tethyestris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GigapteryxPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Gigapteryx tethyestris 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
1 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 Gigapteryx tethyestris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gigapteryx tethyestris and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Gigapteryx tethyestris and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Apateopholis laniatus1 site
- Armigatus alticorpus1 site
- Armigatus namourensis1 site
- Belonostomus1 site
- Ctenodentelops striatus1 site
- Cyclobatis oligodactylus1 site
- Enchodus mecoanalis1 site
- Eubiodectes libanicus1 site
- Eurypholis boissieri1 site
- Gaudryella gaudryi1 site
- Hastichthys gracilis1 site
- Lebonichthys namourensis1 site
- Luenchelys minimus1 site
- Nematonotus bottae1 site
- Nursallia tethysensis1 site
- Ornategulum sardinioides1 site
- Paracentrus lebanonensis1 site
- Proscinetes1 site
- Pycnodontiformes1 site
- Rhynchodercetis yovanovitchi1 site
- Scombroclupea diminuta1 site
- Scombroclupea macrophthalma1 site
- Serrilepis minor1 site
- Serrilepis prymnostrigos1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gigapteryx tethyestris, 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
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gigapteryx tethyestris 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 Gigapteryx tethyestris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gigapteryx tethyestris 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.
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What may have been alongside itGigapteryx through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forey et al. 2003