Gyrolepis albertii

Gyrolepis albertii

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GyrolepisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 48 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 48 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 43 of 48 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 48 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences235–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 5 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 16 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 16 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 4 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241.464 Mya205.7 Mya247.9 Mya198.6 Mya

48 occurrences of Gyrolepis albertii on record, most of them in the Late 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

48 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

Westbury — 53.03°N, 0.81°WWestbury — 51.24°N, 2.34°WWestbury — 51.82°N, 2.41°WWestbury — 51.93°N, 2.17°WWestbury — 51.60°N, 2.63°WWestbury — 50.72°N, 3.05°WWestbury — 51.55°N, 2.40°WWestbury — 51.18°N, 3.38°WGrès de Mortinsart — 49.70°N, 5.66°EGrès de Mortinsart — 49.75°N, 5.79°ELilstock — 51.60°N, 2.61°WWellenkalk — 50.30°N, 18.97°ESables de Mortinsart — 49.71°N, 5.62°ETrochitenkalk — 49.31°N, 8.72°EMuschelkalk — 41.80°N, 2.23°EGrès de Infralias — 48.01°N, 5.53°E

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The named rock units Gyrolepis albertii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gyrolepis albertii and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Gyrolepis albertii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

252 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 42 sites for Gyrolepis albertii, 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

20 references

Each of the 48 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. 8 further references are not listed. 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 Gyrolepis albertii

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gyrolepis albertii 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 itGyrolepis through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1834