Grippiidae

Grippiidae

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
IchthyosauriaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyopterygia
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyosauria
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ichthyosauria

Time the record covers

At least 1.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 248.6 Mya to 247 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 250.8 Mya to 237 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 12 of 13 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 13 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 13 occurrences251–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–250 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences250–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–249 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences249–248 Mya — about 2 occurrences248–248 Mya — about 3 occurrences248–247 Mya — about 3 occurrences247–247 Mya — about 2 occurrences247–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–246 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–245 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences245–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–244 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244–243 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences248.6 Mya – 247 Mya251.3 Mya236.5 Mya

13 occurrences of Grippiidae on record, most of them in the Early 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

13 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

5 formations

Nanlinghu — 31.62°N, 117.82°EVikinghøgda — 78.00°N, 20.00°ESulphur Mountain — 54.53°N, 120.74°WPrida — 40.28°N, 118.08°WSticky Keep — 78.26°N, 17.59°E

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The named rock units Grippiidae 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.

Grippiidae and its relatives

Early Triassic

Where Grippiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Grippiidae, 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

11 references

Each of the 13 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Grippiidae

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 Grippiidae 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 itIchthyosauria through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wiman 1929