Hexapodichnus
No picture of Hexapodichnus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hexapodichnus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchnofossilsPBDB
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 199.5 Mya to 165.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 201.4 Mya to 154.8 Mya.
3 occurrences of Hexapodichnus 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
3 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
2 formations
- Turners Falls Formation · Meriden Group2
- La Matilde Formation1
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The named rock units Hexapodichnus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hexapodichnus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Hexapodichnus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Acanthichnus1 site
- Ameghinichnus1 site
- Ampelichnus sulcatus1 site
- Annelida1 site
- Anomoepus lacertoideus1 site
- Anomoepus major1 site
- Anomoepus scambus1 site
- Anticheiropus hamatus1 site
- Arachnichnus dehiscens n. sp.1 site
- Argoides1 site
- Argoides macrodactylus1 site
- Argoides minimus1 site
- Batrachopus1 site
- Batrachopus bellus1 site
- Batrachopus deweyi1 site
- Batrachopus dispar1 site
- Batrachopus gracilis1 site
- Bifurculipes1 site
- Bisulcus undulatus1 site
- Cochlichnus1 site
- Cochlichnus anguineus1 site
- Coniferophyta1 site
- Conopsoides1 site
- Copeza1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Hexapodichnus, 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- Appendix [B]. Descriptive catalogue of the specimens in the Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet of Amherst College2
- Nuevos aportes sobre la icnofauna de la Formación La Matilde (Jurásico Medio), provincia de Santa Cruz, Argentina [New contributions on the ichnofauna of the La Matilde Formation (Middle Jurassic), Santa Cruz province, Argentina]1
Each of the 3 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 Hexapodichnus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Hexapodichnus firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Hexapodichnus 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.
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What may have been alongside itIchnofossils through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hitchcock 1858