Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
QianichthyosaurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyopterygia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ichthyosauria

Time the record covers

At most 2.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 239.48 Mya and 237 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis on record, most of them in the Middle 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

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.

Found in

1 formation

Falang — 25.13°N, 104.75°E

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The named rock units Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis 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 Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Qianichthyosaurus xingyiensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Yang et al. 2013