Peipiaosteus pani
No picture of Peipiaosteus pani 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 Peipiaosteus pani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PeipiaosteusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acipenseriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Acipenseriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acipenseriformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 119.57 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Peipiaosteus pani on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
4 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group3
- Huajiying Formation1
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The named rock units Peipiaosteus pani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Peipiaosteus pani and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Peipiaosteus pani and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Confuciusornis2 sites
- Asiatolepis muroii1 site
- Dendrorhynchoides curvidentatus1 site
- Ephemeropsis trisetalis1 site
- Jibeinia luanhera1 site
- Jinfengopteryx elegans1 site
- Manchurochelys1 site
- Protopteryx fengningensis1 site
- Psittacosaurus1 site
- Pterodactyloidea1 site
- Yanosteus longidorsalis1 site
- Zhangheotherium quinquecuspidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Peipiaosteus pani, 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
2 references- Stratigraphic sequence and vertebrate-bearing beds of the lower part of the Yixian Formation in Sihetun and neighboring area, western Liaoning, China3
- First avialan bird from China1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Peipiaosteus pani 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 Peipiaosteus pani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Peipiaosteus pani 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPeipiaosteus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liu and Zhou 1965