Pycnosterinx elongatus

Pycnosterinx elongatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnosterinxPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 2.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Cretaceous86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86.2 Mya83.1 Mya

1 occurrence of Pycnosterinx elongatus on record, most of them in the Late 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

1 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.

Pycnosterinx elongatus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pycnosterinx elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Pycnosterinx elongatus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pycnosterinx elongatus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pycnosterinx elongatus 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.

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What may have been alongside itPycnosterinx through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pictet and Humbert 1866