Gryphus

Gryphus is a genus of brachiopods belonging to the family Terebratulidae.

Gryphus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GryphinaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Terebratulidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Rhynchonellata
Environment
marinePBDB, for Lophophorata

Time the record covers

At least 215 million years on record.

The record covers at least 215.38 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 237 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Middle Triassic — about 0 of 219 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 18 of 219 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 53 of 219 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 8 of 219 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 16 of 219 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 219 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 219 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 219 occurrencesEocene — about 46 of 219 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 219 occurrencesMiocene — about 22 of 219 occurrencesPliocene — about 6 of 219 occurrencesPleistocene — about 42 of 219 occurrences242–234 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences234–226 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences226–218 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–210 Mya — about 1 occurrence210–201 Mya — about 14 occurrences201–193 Mya — about 36 occurrences193–185 Mya — about 6 occurrences185–177 Mya — about 9 occurrences177–169 Mya — about 3 occurrences169–161 Mya — about 7 occurrences161–153 Mya — about 4 occurrences153–145 Mya — about 10 occurrences145–137 Mya — about 3 occurrences137–129 Mya — about 1 occurrence129–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–105 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–64 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences64–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–40 Mya — about 29 occurrences40–32 Mya — about 13 occurrences24–16 Mya — about 8 occurrences16–8.1 Mya — about 13 occurrences8.1–0 Mya — about 49 occurrences215.38 Mya129 ka242 Mya0 Mya

219 occurrences of Gryphus on record, most of them in the Early Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

219 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

37 formations

Szoc Limestone — 46.98°N, 17.30°ESzoc Limestone — 46.99°N, 17.35°ESzoc Limestone — 47.01°N, 17.50°ESzoc Limestone — 47.08°N, 17.57°ESzoc Limestone — 47.10°N, 17.66°ESzoc Limestone — 47.20°N, 17.81°ESzoc Limestone — 47.24°N, 17.60°EBlue Lias — 50.70°N, 2.97°WBlue Lias — 52.36°N, 1.86°WBlue Lias — 52.03°N, 2.15°WBlue Lias — 50.73°N, 2.92°WBlue Lias — 51.13°N, 2.77°WBlue Lias — 51.13°N, 2.73°WNaha — 26.21°N, 127.65°ENaha — 26.68°N, 127.97°ENaha — 26.31°N, 127.78°ENaha — 26.70°N, 127.94°ENaha — 26.36°N, 127.75°ENaha — 26.31°N, 127.90°EWhite Lias — 51.12°N, 2.73°WAlum Shale — 54.55°N, 0.88°WAlum Shale — 54.48°N, 0.60°WAlum Shale — 54.45°N, 0.53°WRhodes — 36.25°N, 28.17°EWestbury — 51.60°N, 2.63°WWestbury — 51.82°N, 2.41°WWestbury — 51.93°N, 2.23°WLuning — 38.43°N, 118.05°WOxford Clay — 51.75°N, 1.24°WOxford Clay — 51.73°N, 1.21°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.53°WCrescent — 47.31°N, 123.55°WKimmeridge Clay — 51.74°N, 1.31°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.61°N, 2.13°WMont-Lambert — 50.77°N, 1.63°EExter — 48.55°N, 9.07°EExter — 48.56°N, 9.07°ECharmouth Mudstone — 50.71°N, 2.96°WCharmouth Mudstone — 50.73°N, 2.91°WCerritos Bayos — 22.56°S, 69.14°WLuxembourg — 49.72°N, 5.80°ENaarai — 35.70°N, 140.85°ELias — 51.40°N, 2.46°WSandilands — 53.93°N, 133.15°WFaringdon Sand — 51.65°N, 1.58°WBoca de Serpiente — 10.08°N, 62.01°WWhitby Mudstone — 54.53°N, 0.70°WOtter Point — 42.59°N, 124.40°WSables de Mortinsart — 49.71°N, 5.62°E

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The named rock units Gryphus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 13 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 103 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gryphus and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Gryphus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

697 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 194 sites for Gryphus, 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

74 references

Each of the 219 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. 62 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Gryphus

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CT scan

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Specimen
Vultur gryphus · USNM:BIRDS:USNM 346633

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGryphinae through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Megerle von Mühlfeld 1811