Dapedius caelatus

Dapedius caelatus Quenstedt, 1858, a relative of Dapedius caelatus — not Dapedius caelatus itself

Not Dapedius caelatus. This is Dapedius caelatus Quenstedt, 1858, a relative — both are Dapediidae.

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · 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
DapediumPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 9.5 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 184.2 Mya and 174.7 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Early Jurassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 1 occurrence184–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–184 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–183 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences183–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–182 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–181 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–180 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences180–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–179 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences179–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–178 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–177 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences177–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–176 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences176–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences175–175 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences184.7 Mya174.2 Mya

1 occurrence of Dapedius caelatus on record, most of them in the Early 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.

Dapedius caelatus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Dapedius caelatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dapedius caelatus, 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 Dapedius caelatus Quenstedt, 1858

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Dapedius caelatus 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 itDapedium through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Quenstedt 1858