Hypsocormus insignis
No picture of Hypsocormus insignis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Hypsocormus insignis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HypsocormusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Pachycormidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Pachycormiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pachycormiformes
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hypsocormus insignis on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Hypsocormus insignis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hypsocormus insignis and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Hypsocormus insignis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Aspidorhynchus ornatissimus1 site
- Asthenocormus titanius1 site
- Belonostomus muensteri1 site
- Callipurbeckia notopterus1 site
- Caturus maximus1 site
- Eugnathus macrodon1 site
- Lepidotus decoratus1 site
- Lepidotus intermedius1 site
- Lepidotus maximus1 site
- Lepidotus subovatus1 site
- Megalurus altivelis1 site
- Megalurus elegantissimus1 site
- Mesolimulus walchi1 site
- Ophiopsiella procera1 site
- Pholidophorus elongatus1 site
- Pholidophorus microps1 site
- Pholidophorus ovatus1 site
- Plesiodus pustulosus1 site
- Sauropsis1 site
- Thalassochelydia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hypsocormus insignis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 Hypsocormus insignis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Hypsocormus insignis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hypsocormus insignis 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 itHypsocormus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1860