Caturus pachyurus

Caturus pachiurus (Agassiz, 1832), a relative of Caturus pachyurus — not Caturus pachyurus itself

Not Caturus pachyurus. This is Caturus pachiurus (Agassiz, 1832), a relative — both are Caturidae.

President and Fellows of Harvard College · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
CaturusPBDB
Diet
carnivore, piscivorePBDB, for Amiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Amiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Amiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 44 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate Cretaceous153–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–145 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145.06 Mya100.5 Mya153 Mya93 Mya

3 occurrences of Caturus pachyurus 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

3 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.

Found in

2 formations

Solnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°EGrünsandstein — 48.93°N, 11.83°E

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The named rock units Caturus pachyurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Caturus pachyurus and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Caturus pachyurus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

84 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Caturus pachyurus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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 content1

Picture of Caturus pachiurus (Agassiz, 1832)

Source
GBIF
Credit
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan of Caturus pachyurus 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 itCaturus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1843)