Saurichthys macrocephalus

Saurichthys macrocephalus

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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 1.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 239.48 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 237 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 5 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241.464 Mya239.48 Mya243.9 Mya236.5 Mya

5 occurrences of Saurichthys macrocephalus 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

5 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

2 formations

Besano — 45.91°N, 8.94°EPerledo-Varenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°E

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

Saurichthys macrocephalus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Saurichthys macrocephalus, 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

3 references

Each of the 5 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

Media content1

Picture of Saurichthys macrocephalus

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

No 3D scan of Saurichthys macrocephalus 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 Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Deecke 1889)