Selachicoprus ferganensis
No picture of Selachicoprus ferganensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Selachicoprus ferganensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SelachicoprusPBDB
Time the record covers
At most 3.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 165.3 Mya and 161.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Selachicoprus ferganensis on record, most of them in the Middle Jurassic. 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- Middle Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Selachicoprus ferganensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Selachicoprus ferganensis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Selachicoprus ferganensis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Actinopterygii1 site
- Bivalvia1 site
- Camarasauridae1 site
- Chengyuchelys latimarginalis1 site
- Coeluridae1 site
- Ferganobatrachus riabinini1 site
- Ferganocephale adenticulatum1 site
- Ferganoceratodus jurassicus1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Lacertilia1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Osteichthyes1 site
- Peipehsuchus1 site
- Plantae1 site
- Plesiochelys1 site
- Polyacrodus1 site
- Rhamphorhynchinae1 site
- Sunosuchus1 site
- Tashkumyrodon desideratus1 site
- Testudines1 site
- Tetanurae1 site
- Xinjiangchelyidae1 site
- Xinjiangchelys tianshanensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Selachicoprus ferganensis, 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 referenceEach 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 Selachicoprus ferganensis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Selachicoprus ferganensis firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Selachicoprus ferganensis 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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What may have been alongside itSelachicoprus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vyalov and Khozatzkii 1993