Neoceratodus africanus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
NeoceratodusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi

Time the record covers

At least 42 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 154.8 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 17 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 17 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 10 of 17 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrences157–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–150 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences138–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–117 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences117–113 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences113–110 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences107–104 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 4 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 2 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–83 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences143.1 Mya100.5 Mya157 Mya64 Mya

17 occurrences of Neoceratodus africanus on record. 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

17 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

9 formations

Continental Intercalaire — 32.72°N, 0.83°EContinental Intercalaire — 28.40°N, 7.82°EContinental Intercalaire — 28.53°N, 9.05°EIfezouane — 31.51°N, 4.08°WIfezouane — 31.59°N, 4.18°WGrès rouges — 31.55°N, 2.43°WGrès rouges — 32.04°N, 2.58°WBahariya — 28.33°N, 29.12°EGara Samani — 29.67°N, 1.92°EAïn el Guettar — 33.17°N, 10.26°ETacuarembó — 31.80°S, 56.13°WContinental Intercalaire — 33.19°N, 10.29°EElrhaz — 16.47°N, 9.17°E

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The named rock units Neoceratodus africanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

88 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Neoceratodus africanus, 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

11 references

Each of the 17 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Neoceratodus africanus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

No 3D scan of Neoceratodus africanus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Haug 1905)