Pycnodus gigas

No picture of Pycnodus gigas 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 Pycnodus gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnodusPBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 154.8 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 157.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous159–157 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences157–156 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences156–154 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences154.8 Mya113.2 Mya158.9 Mya109.1 Mya

2 occurrences of Pycnodus gigas on record, most of them in the Late 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

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

Korallenkalk — 52.36°N, 9.70°E

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The named rock units Pycnodus gigas 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.

Pycnodus gigas and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pycnodus gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pycnodus gigas, 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

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

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No picture of Pycnodus gigas 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 Pycnodus gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pycnodus gigas 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 itPycnodus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1833