Holophagus gulo

Not Holophagus gulo. This is Holophagus gulo Egerton, 1861, a relative — both are Latimeroidea.
via GBIF · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- HolophagusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 8.5 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Holophagus gulo 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 occurrences- Early Jurassic100%
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.
Holophagus gulo and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Holophagus gulo and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Caturus ferox2 sites
- Caturus heterurus2 sites
- Chondrosteus acipenseroides2 sites
- Coccolepis liassicus2 sites
- Dapedium colei2 sites
- Dapedium granulatum2 sites
- Dapedium magnevillei2 sites
- Dapedium milloti2 sites
- Dapedium politum2 sites
- Dapedium radiatum2 sites
- Dorsetichthys bechei2 sites
- Eugnathus minor2 sites
- Eugnathus philpotiae2 sites
- Eulepidotus sauroides2 sites
- Furo orthostomus2 sites
- Heterolepidotus latus2 sites
- Metopacanthus granulatus2 sites
- Myriacanthus paradoxus2 sites
- Osteorachis macrocephalus2 sites
- Oxygnathus ornatus2 sites
- Pholidophoroides crenulata2 sites
- Pholidophoroides limbata2 sites
- Pholidophoropsis caudalis2 sites
- Platysiagum sclerocephalum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Holophagus gulo, 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
3 references- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II1
- On the characters of some new fossil fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis1
- Holophagus gulo description, in Preliminary essay upon the systematic arrangment of the fishes of the Devonian Epoch1
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. 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 Holophagus gulo Egerton, 1861
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Holophagus gulo 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 itHolophagus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Egerton 1861)