Pachycormus macropterus

Pachycormus macropterus

équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachycormusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pachycormidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pachycormiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pachycormiformes

Time the record covers

At most 9.5 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 31 of 31 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 31 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 3 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 5 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 5 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 1 occurrence183–182 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences184.7 Mya174.2 Mya

31 occurrences of Pachycormus macropterus 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

31 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

Beacon Limstone — 50.93°N, 2.91°WPosidonia Shale — 48.63°N, 9.52°E

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The named rock units Pachycormus macropterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachycormus macropterus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Pachycormus macropterus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

71 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Pachycormus macropterus, 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

7 references

Each of the 31 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 content2

Picture of Pachycormus macropterus

Source
GBIF
Credit
équipe des Fouilles du MnhnL
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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 itPachycormus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Blainville 1818)