Pholidolepis
No picture of Pholidolepis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Pholidolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PholidophoridaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholidophoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pholidophoridae
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pholidolepis 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
2 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Pholidolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pholidolepis and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Pholidolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
87 taxa- Dapedium2 sites
- Squaloraja polyspondyla2 sites
- Acrodus anningiae1 site
- Acrodus nobilis1 site
- Aeger elongatus1 site
- Aeger foersteri1 site
- Aeger laevis1 site
- Aeger macropus1 site
- Aeger muensteri1 site
- Aeger robustus1 site
- Aeger rostrospinatus1 site
- Angulaticeras1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Caturus agassizi1 site
- Caturus heterurus1 site
- Caturus latipennis1 site
- Chondrosteus acipenseroides1 site
- Chondrosteus pachyurus1 site
- Coccolepis liassicus1 site
- Coelacanthiformes1 site
- Coleia1 site
- Coleia antiqua1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pholidolepis, 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
2 references- Exceptional preservation in the Jurassic of Osteno1
- On certain Triassic and Liassic representatives of the family Pholidophoridae s. str1
Each of the 2 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
Media content0
No picture of Pholidolepis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Pholidolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pholidolepis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPholidophoridae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Nybelin 1966