Saurichthys apicalis

Saurichthys apicalis

Agassiz, 1834 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
SaurichthysPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Saurichthyidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Saurichthyidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 168.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 165.3 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 8 of 12 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 2 of 12 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic249–246 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 3 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–203 Mya — about 1 occurrence203–200 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 1 occurrence166–164 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences243.43 Mya168.2 Mya249 Mya164 Mya

12 occurrences of Saurichthys apicalis 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

12 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

4 formations

Lealt Shale — 56.92°N, 6.15°WLealt Shale — 56.91°N, 6.11°WWestbury — 51.82°N, 2.41°WWestbury — 51.93°N, 2.17°WMuschelkalk — 50.01°N, 11.62°EMuschelkalk — 51.54°N, 9.96°EKalapani — 30.39°N, 80.16°E

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The named rock units Saurichthys apicalis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saurichthys apicalis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Saurichthys apicalis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Saurichthys apicalis, 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

7 references

Each of the 12 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

Media content1

Picture of Saurichthys apicalis

Credit
Agassiz, 1834
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itSaurichthys through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1834