Tharsis

Tharsis is an extinct genus of marine ray-finned fish known from the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone of Germany. The genus contains two species, T. dubius and T. elleri.

Tharsis

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
AscalaboidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 7.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 8 of 8 occurrencesLate Jurassic152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152.7 Mya144.6 Mya

8 occurrences of Tharsis on record, most of them in the Late 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

8 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

Painten — 48.92°N, 11.58°ETorleite — 50.04°N, 11.12°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Tharsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tharsis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Tharsis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

149 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Tharsis, 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 8 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 content3

Picture of Tharsis

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Synchrotron Imaging scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Tharsis dubius · nhmuk:pal:pv or 37852b

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAscalaboidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Giebel 1848