Semionotus ovatus

A picture published with the record for Semionotus ovatus. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
SemionotusPBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Semionotiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Semionotiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Semionotiformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 199.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 192.9 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic242–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences239–237 Mya — about 1 occurrence237–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences229–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences197–195 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences195–194 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237 Mya199.5 Mya242 Mya192 Mya

4 occurrences of Semionotus ovatus on record. 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

4 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

3 formations

Muschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°EBoonton — 40.90°N, 74.40°WLockatong — 40.20°N, 75.27°W

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

Found in the same rock

80 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Semionotus ovatus, 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 4 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 Semionotus ovatus

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
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 itSemionotus through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Redfield 1841)