Mikadocephalus gracilirostris

No picture of Mikadocephalus gracilirostris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mikadocephalus gracilirostris 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 Mikadocephalus gracilirostris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MikadocephalusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyopterygia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ichthyosauria

Time the record covers

At most 4.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 237 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Mikadocephalus gracilirostris on record, most of them in the Middle 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

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

Tschermakfjellet — 77.65°N, 14.86°E

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

Mikadocephalus gracilirostris and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Mikadocephalus gracilirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mikadocephalus gracilirostris, and this reads all of them.

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 Mikadocephalus gracilirostris was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Mikadocephalus gracilirostris 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 Mikadocephalus gracilirostris, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Mikadocephalus gracilirostris 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. Maisch and Matzke 1997