Helichthys browni
No picture of Helichthys browni 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 Helichthys browni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelichthysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Helichthys browni 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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.
Helichthys browni and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Helichthys browni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Dicellopyge lissocephalus2 sites
- Lissodus africanus2 sites
- Atopocephala watsoni1 site
- Ceratodus kannemeyeri1 site
- Cleithrolepidina minor1 site
- Cleithrolepis extoni1 site
- Coelacanthus1 site
- Daedalichthys higginsi1 site
- Dicellopyge macrodentata1 site
- Dictyopyge formosa1 site
- Hydropessum kannemeyeri1 site
- Meidiichthys browni1 site
- Pholidophorus1 site
- Pholidophorus browni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Helichthys browni, 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- On Fossil Fishes from the Karroo System and some General Considerations on the Bony Fishes of the Triassic Period1
- The fossil fishes of the Upper Karroo Beds of South Africa1
Each of the 2 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 content0
No picture of Helichthys browni 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 Helichthys browni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helichthys browni 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHelichthys through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Broom 1913