Davichthys dubius
No picture of Davichthys dubius 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 Davichthys dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DavichthysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Davichthys dubius on record, most of them in the Late 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- Late 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.
Davichthys dubius and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Davichthys dubius and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Cheirothrix libanicus2 sites
- Lebonichthys gracilis2 sites
- Leptotrachelus triqueter2 sites
- Acrogaster daviesi1 site
- Acrogaster heckeli1 site
- Actinobatis davisi1 site
- Almascyllium cheikheliasi1 site
- Benthesikyme gracilis1 site
- Centrophoroides latidens1 site
- Centrosqualus primaevus1 site
- Cheirothrix lewisii1 site
- Chondrosteus1 site
- Clupea elongata1 site
- Dinopteryx spinosus1 site
- Enchodus major1 site
- Enchodus recurvus1 site
- Eurygnathus ferox1 site
- Histiothrissa crassapinna1 site
- Holcolepis attenuatus1 site
- Homonotus pulcher1 site
- Hoplopteryx oblongus1 site
- Ichthyotringa furcata1 site
- Istieus lebanonensis1 site
- Lewisia ovalis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Davichthys dubius, 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- A revision of the elopiform fishes, fossil and recent1
- The fossil fishes of the chalk of Mount Lebanon, in Syria1
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 content0
No picture of Davichthys dubius 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 Davichthys dubius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Davichthys dubius 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDavichthys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davis 1887)