Ionoscopus cyprinoides

No picture of Ionoscopus cyprinoides 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 Ionoscopus cyprinoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IonoscopusPBDB
Diet
carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Amiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous153–151 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149.2 Mya100.5 Mya153 Mya93 Mya

2 occurrences of Ionoscopus cyprinoides on record, most of them in the Late 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

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

2 formations

Liegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EGrünsandstein — 48.93°N, 11.83°E

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The named rock units Ionoscopus cyprinoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ionoscopus cyprinoides and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ionoscopus cyprinoides and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ionoscopus cyprinoides, 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

2 references

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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Ionoscopus cyprinoides 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 Ionoscopus cyprinoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ionoscopus cyprinoides 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 itIonoscopus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wagner 1863)