Folipistrix
No picture of Folipistrix 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 Folipistrix, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemiscylliidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 182.9 Mya and 170.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Folipistrix 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
7 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Folipistrix has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Folipistrix and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Folipistrix and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Palidiplospinax6 sites
- Elasmobranchii5 sites
- Eoscyllium duffini3 sites
- Pseudonotidanus semirugosus3 sites
- Ornatoscyllium2 sites
- Palaeobrachaelurus2 sites
- Paraorthacodus2 sites
- Toarcibatis alticarinata2 sites
- Lissodus1 site
- Palaeobrachaelurus alisonae1 site
- Paracestracion1 site
- Protospinax1 site
- Pseudonotidanus terencei1 site
- Thiesoscyllium underwoodi1 site
- Toarcibatis elongata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Folipistrix, 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- Toarcian shark and ray faunas (Chondrichthyans) from Luxembourg and Belgium in the aftermath of the T-OAE6
- Neoselachian remains (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from the Middle Jurassic of SW Germany and NW Poland1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Folipistrix 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 Folipistrix, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Folipistrix 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHemiscylliidae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kriwet 2003