Deltolepis
No picture of Deltolepis 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 Deltolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CycadopsidaPBDB
- Diet
- "photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 170.9 Mya and 165.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Deltolepis on record, most of them in the Middle 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
2 occurrences- Middle Jurassic100%
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
- Cloughton Formation · Ravenscar Group1
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The named rock units Deltolepis 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.
Deltolepis and its relatives
Middle JurassicWhere Deltolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Elatocladus2 sites
- Nilsonia2 sites
- Pseudoctenis2 sites
- Pterophyllum2 sites
- Androstrobus manis1 site
- Anomozamites1 site
- Araucarites1 site
- Aspidistes1 site
- Beania gracilis1 site
- Bilsdalea dura1 site
- Brachyphyllum mamillare1 site
- Caytonanthus1 site
- Caytonanthus arberi1 site
- Caytonia1 site
- Coniopteris1 site
- Coniopteris hymenophylloides1 site
- Coniopteris murrayana1 site
- Ctenis1 site
- Ctenis sulcicaulis1 site
- Ctenozamites1 site
- Cycadolepis1 site
- Czekanowskia1 site
- Dicksonia1 site
- Dictyophyllum rugosum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Deltolepis, 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- The Jurassic Flora of Yorkshire1
- Fragments of a Middle Jurassic flora from Northern Trondelag, Norway1
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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Deltolepis 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 Deltolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Deltolepis 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 itCycadopsida through timeFormations of the Middle JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Harris 1942