Pholidophorus

Pholidophorus is an extinct genus of stem-teleost fish. Numerous species were assigned to this genus in the past, but only the type species Pholidophorus latiusculus, from the Late Triassic of Europe, is considered to be a valid member of the genus today.

A picture published with the record for Pholidophorus.

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
PholidophoridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholidophoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pholidophoridae

Time the record covers

At least 143 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 95 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 6 of 95 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 31 of 95 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 28 of 95 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 95 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 17 of 95 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 95 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 95 occurrences252–246 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences246–241 Mya — about 5 occurrences241–236 Mya — about 2 occurrences236–230 Mya — about 1 occurrence230–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–220 Mya — about 1 occurrence220–214 Mya — about 6 occurrences214–209 Mya — about 12 occurrences209–203 Mya — about 5 occurrences203–198 Mya — about 9 occurrences198–193 Mya — about 4 occurrences193–187 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences187–182 Mya — about 11 occurrences182–177 Mya — about 5 occurrences177–171 Mya — about 2 occurrences171–166 Mya — about 2 occurrences166–161 Mya — about 2 occurrences161–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–150 Mya — about 6 occurrences150–144 Mya — about 10 occurrences144–139 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences139–134 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences128–123 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences123–118 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence244.4 Mya100.5 Mya252 Mya91 Mya

95 occurrences of Pholidophorus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

95 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

24 formations

Solnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°EHauptdolomit — 47.73°N, 13.14°ESeefelder — 47.32°N, 11.22°EWestbury — 51.60°N, 2.63°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EGrünsandstein — 48.93°N, 11.83°EDolomia Principale — 40.72°N, 14.95°EGreat Oolite — 49.19°N, 0.37°WBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°ESainte-Barbe Clays — 50.48°N, 3.65°ECalcare di Sogno — 45.83°N, 9.30°ELombardische Kieselkalk — 46.00°N, 9.08°EWhite Lias — 51.12°N, 2.73°WAshfield Shale — 33.91°S, 151.19°EBlue Lias — 52.59°N, 1.11°WTerrigal — 33.43°S, 151.34°EOxford Clay — 51.50°N, 2.06°WMuschelkalk — 41.26°N, 1.14°ETorleite — 50.04°N, 11.12°ESeefeld — 47.32°N, 11.22°ESogno — 45.79°N, 9.47°EKössen — 47.13°N, 9.85°EAsphaltschiefer — 3.24°S, 126.26°EAltmühltal — 48.89°N, 10.96°E

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The named rock units Pholidophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pholidophorus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Pholidophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

621 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 66 sites for Pholidophorus, 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

37 references

Each of the 95 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. 25 further references are not listed. 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 Pholidophorus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPholidophoridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1832