Dollopterus

Dollopterus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
PerleidiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 4 of 5 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 5 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 5 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 2 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241.464 Mya205.7 Mya244.3 Mya200.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Dollopterus 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

5 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

1 formation

Trochitenkalk — 49.33°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Dollopterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Dollopterus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Dollopterus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dollopterus, 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

2 references

Each of the 5 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 Dollopterus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Dollopterus 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 itPerleidiformes through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Abel 1906