Aspidorhynchus crassus

Aspidorhynchus crassus

Woodward, 1890 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
AspidorhynchusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Life habit
nektonic, depth=surfacePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae
Environment
marinePBDB, for Aspidorhynchidae

Time the record covers

At most 2.9 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 168.2 Mya and 165.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Aspidorhynchus crassus 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

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.

Aspidorhynchus crassus and its relatives

Middle Jurassic

Where Aspidorhynchus crassus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aspidorhynchus crassus, 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 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Aspidorhynchus crassus

Credit
Woodward, 1890
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Aspidorhynchus crassus 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 itAspidorhynchus through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1890