Palidiplospinax

No picture of Palidiplospinax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Palidiplospinax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeospinacidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Synechodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Synechodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Synechodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 19 million years on record.

The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 180.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 174.7 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 30 of 30 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 30 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences201–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences199–198 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences198–197 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences196–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–195 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences194–193 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences193–192 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences192–191 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences191–190 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences190–189 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences189–188 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences188–187 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences187–186 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences185–184 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 2 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 2 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 1 occurrence180–179 Mya — about 2 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 2 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 2 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 2 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 2 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences199.5 Mya180.4 Mya201.9 Mya174.2 Mya

30 occurrences of Palidiplospinax 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

30 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

3 formations

Rya — 55.98°N, 12.79°EHasle — 55.18°N, 14.72°EMarnes de Strassen — 49.72°N, 5.80°E

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The named rock units Palidiplospinax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 26 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palidiplospinax and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Palidiplospinax and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Palidiplospinax, 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

9 references

Each of the 30 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 Palidiplospinax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Palidiplospinax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palidiplospinax 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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What may have been alongside itPalaeospinacidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Klug and Kriwet 2008