Ischyrocephalus macropterus
No picture of Ischyrocephalus macropterus 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 Ischyrocephalus macropterus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnchodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Enchodontidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ischyrocephalus macropterus 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ischyrocephalus macropterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ischyrocephalus macropterus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ischyrocephalus macropterus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Acrogaster brevicostatus1 site
- Astacidea1 site
- Benthesikyme armatus1 site
- Berycopsis germanus1 site
- Cheirothrix guestphalicus1 site
- Echidnocephalus troscheli1 site
- Leptosomus guestphalicus1 site
- Oplophorus marcki1 site
- Paratriakis decheni1 site
- Pelargorhynchus dercetiformis1 site
- Penaeus tenuicauda1 site
- Platycormus gibbosus1 site
- Sardinius cordieri1 site
- Sedenhorstia granulata1 site
- Sicyonia roemeri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ischyrocephalus macropterus, 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- Fossile Fische, Krebse und Pflanzen aus den Plattenkalken der jüngsten Kreide aus Westfalen2
- Dritter nachtrag. Fische der oberen Kreide Westfalens1
Each of the 3 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 Ischyrocephalus macropterus 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 Ischyrocephalus macropterus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ischyrocephalus macropterus 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 itEnchodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von der Marck 1858