Axelrodichthys araripensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AxelrodichthysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 3.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 119.57 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
2 occurrences of Axelrodichthys araripensis on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
2 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Tlayúa Formation1
- Romualdo Formation · Santana Group1
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The named rock units Axelrodichthys araripensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Axelrodichthys araripensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Axelrodichthys araripensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Vinctifer2 sites
- Araripichthys weberi1 site
- Araucaria1 site
- Armigatus carrenoae1 site
- Belonostomus1 site
- Brannerion1 site
- Calamopleurus cylindricus1 site
- Cipactlichthys scutatus1 site
- Cladocyclus gardneri1 site
- Ellimichthys1 site
- Frenelopsis1 site
- Goniopholididae1 site
- Mawsonia gigas1 site
- Megalops1 site
- Michin csernai1 site
- Notelops1 site
- Nyctosaurus1 site
- Ophiactis applegatei1 site
- Ornithocheiroidea1 site
- Paraelops1 site
- Ranulfoichthys dorsonudum1 site
- Rhacolepis1 site
- Rhacolepis buccalis1 site
- Sphaeromatidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Axelrodichthys araripensis, 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
2 references- New records of Mawsoniidae (Actinistia) from the Romualdo Formation, Aptian-Albian of the Araripe Basin in Pernambuco state, Brazil1
- Revision of recent investigations in the Tlayua Quarry1
Each of the 2 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
Media content1
Picture of Axelrodichthys araripensis
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Daderot
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Axelrodichthys araripensis 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 itAxelrodichthys through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Maisey 1986