Besania micrognathus
No picture of Besania micrognathus 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 Besania micrognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BesaniaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 241.464 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Besania micrognathus on record, most of them in the Middle 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
1 occurrences- Middle 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Besania micrognathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Besania micrognathus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Besania micrognathus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Aetheodontus besanensis1 site
- Cephaloxenus1 site
- Cephaloxenus macropterus1 site
- Eoeugnathus megalepis1 site
- Habroichthys minimus1 site
- Luganoia lepidosteoides1 site
- Meridensia meridensis1 site
- Peltopleurus1 site
- Peltopleurus lissocephalus1 site
- Peltopleurus rugosus1 site
- Placopleurus besanensis1 site
- Platysiagum minus1 site
- Ptycholepis barboi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Besania micrognathus, 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 referenceEach 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 content0
No picture of Besania micrognathus 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 Besania micrognathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Besania micrognathus 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 itBesania through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brough 1939