Saurichthys deperditus
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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 5.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 211.18 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 215.38 Mya to 201.4 Mya.
3 occurrences of Saurichthys deperditus on record, most of them in the Late 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
3 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Saurichthys deperditus 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.
Saurichthys deperditus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Saurichthys deperditus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Paralepidotus ornatus2 sites
- Pholidophorus latiusculus2 sites
- Belonorhynchus1 site
- Colobodus latus1 site
- Dapedius costai1 site
- Eugnathus brachilepis1 site
- Heterolepidotus cephalus1 site
- Holophagus picenus1 site
- Italopterus magnificus1 site
- Legnonotus krambergeri1 site
- Peltopleurus humilis1 site
- Pholidophorus pusillus1 site
- Undina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Saurichthys deperditus, 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
3 references- The Norian fish deposits of Wiestal ("Seefeld Member", Northern Calcareous Alps, Salzburg, Austria) - taxonomy and palaeoenvironmental implications1
- The Triassic Fish Saurichthys Krambergeri Schlosser1
- La ittiofauna della Dolomia Principale di Giffoni (Provincia di Salerno)1
Each of the 3 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 Saurichthys deperditus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Saurichthys deperditus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saurichthys deperditus 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 itSaurichthys through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Costa 1862)