Turseodus acutus
No picture of Turseodus acutus 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 Turseodus acutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TurseodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Turseodus acutus 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
4 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
- Lockatong Formation · Chatham Group3
- Stockton Formation · Chatham Group1
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The named rock units Turseodus acutus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Turseodus acutus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Turseodus acutus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Diplurus2 sites
- Artiodactylus sinclairi1 site
- Diplurus longicaudatus1 site
- Estheriidae indet.1 site
- Metoposauridae1 site
- Micrichnus scotti1 site
- Osteopleurus newarki1 site
- Redfieldiidae1 site
- Semionotus1 site
- Synorichthys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Turseodus acutus, 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
2 references- The palaeoniscoid fish Turseodus from the Upper Triassic Newark Group3
- New eastern American Triassic fishes and Triassic correlations1
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 content0
No picture of Turseodus acutus 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 Turseodus acutus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Turseodus acutus 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 itTurseodus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1857