Metopacanthus bollensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MetopacanthusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes

Time the record covers

At most 1.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 182.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly Jurassic184–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.7 Mya182.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Metopacanthus bollensis 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

1 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

1 formation

Posidonienschiefer — 48.63°N, 9.52°E

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

Metopacanthus bollensis and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Metopacanthus bollensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

4 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Metopacanthus bollensis, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Metopacanthus bollensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Metopacanthus bollensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Metopacanthus bollensis was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource was 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 itMetopacanthus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Fraas 1910)