Pholidophorus germanicus
No picture of Pholidophorus germanicus 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 Pholidophorus germanicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PholidophorusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholidophoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pholidophoridae
Time the record covers
At least 14 million years on record.
The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 165.3 Mya.
10 occurrences of Pholidophorus germanicus 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
10 occurrencesThese 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 Pholidophorus germanicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pholidophorus germanicus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Pholidophorus germanicus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Pachycormus macropterus9 sites
- Leptolepis coryphaenoides7 sites
- Dapedius pholidotus5 sites
- Lepidotes elvensis4 sites
- Pholidophorus hartmanni3 sites
- Ptycholepis bollensis3 sites
- Saurorhynchus acutus3 sites
- Saurostomus esocinus3 sites
- Gyrosteus mirabilis2 sites
- Lepidotes semiserratus2 sites
- Leptolepis saltviciensis2 sites
- Sauropsis latus2 sites
- Saurorhynchus2 sites
- Tetragonolepis semicincta2 sites
- Caturus1 site
- Coleopteron1 site
- Dapedium1 site
- Dapedium magnevillei1 site
- Dapedium milloti1 site
- Dapedius caelatus1 site
- Dapedius punctatus1 site
- Euthynotus incognitus1 site
- Furo normandica1 site
- Hybodus hauffianus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pholidophorus germanicus, 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- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III8
- Compléments a l'étude des poissons actinoptérygiens du Jurassique français2
Each of the 10 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
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No picture of Pholidophorus germanicus 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 Pholidophorus germanicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pholidophorus germanicus 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.
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What may have been alongside itPholidophorus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quenstedt 1858