Megalolepis

No picture of Megalolepis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Megalolepis 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.

Time the record covers

At most 144 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 11.7 ka, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 4 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 4 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 4 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–24 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146 Mya0 Mya

4 occurrences of Megalolepis on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

4 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

1 formation

Menelite — 49.93°N, 22.02°E

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The named rock units Megalolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Megalolepis and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Megalolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

289 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Megalolepis, 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

Each of the 4 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 content0

No picture of Megalolepis was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Megalolepis 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 Megalolepis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jonet 1958