Amydroptychus
No picture of Amydroptychus 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 Amydroptychus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GibbirhynchiinaePBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Life habit
- epifaunalPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Motility
- stationaryPBDB, for Rhynchonellida
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
- Environment
- marinePBDB, for Lophophorata
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 168.2 Mya to 157.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 154.8 Mya.
6 occurrences of Amydroptychus 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
6 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Amydroptychus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amydroptychus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Amydroptychus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Actinostreon gregarea4 sites
- Cererithyris4 sites
- Daghanirhynchia4 sites
- Somalirhynchia africana4 sites
- Monsardithyris3 sites
- Rhynchonellida3 sites
- Septaliphoria3 sites
- Somalirhynchia3 sites
- Actinastrea crassoramosa2 sites
- Cymatorhynchia2 sites
- Gastropoda2 sites
- Lucina cecchii2 sites
- Arcomytilus laitmairensis1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Daghanirhynchia macfadyeni1 site
- Daghanirhynchia rawyaensis1 site
- Integricardium bannesianum1 site
- Liostrea1 site
- Musculus somaliensis1 site
- Nastosia coangustata1 site
- Nastosia convexa1 site
- Nerinea1 site
- Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei1 site
- Plagiostoma harronis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Amydroptychus, 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- Marine benthic invertebrates from the Upper Jurassic of northern Ethiopia and their biogeographic affinities4
- Jurassic rhynchonellide brachiopods from the Jordan Valley1
- Jurassic brachiopods of Saudi Arabia1
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Amydroptychus 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 Amydroptychus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amydroptychus 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 itGibbirhynchiinae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cooper 1989