Ichthyosaurus larkini
No picture of Ichthyosaurus larkini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ichthyosaurus larkini itself, so it was not used. 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 Ichthyosaurus larkini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchthyosaurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyopterygia
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Time the record covers
At most 1.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 199.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ichthyosaurus larkini on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. 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- Early Jurassic100%
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
- Blue Lias Formation · Lias Group2
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The named rock units Ichthyosaurus larkini has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ichthyosaurus larkini and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Ichthyosaurus larkini and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Ichthyosaurus communis2 sites
- Thalassiodracon hawkinsii2 sites
- Avalonnectes arturi1 site
- Eurycleidus arcuatus1 site
- Ichthyosaurus somersetensis1 site
- Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris1 site
- Plesiosaurus cliduchus1 site
- Protoichthyosaurus prostaxalis1 site
- Rhomaleosaurus megacephalus1 site
- Stratesaurus taylori1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ichthyosaurus larkini, 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
1 referenceEach 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. 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 Ichthyosaurus larkini was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ichthyosaurus larkini itself, so it was not used.
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 Ichthyosaurus larkini, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ichthyosaurus larkini 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lomax and Massare 2017