Meidiichthys

Meidiichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish that lived during the Early Triassic epoch.

No picture of Meidiichthys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Meidiichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PerleididaePBDB
Diet
grazer, detritivorePBDB, for Perleididae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 41 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 241.464 Mya and 201.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences221–220 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences209–208 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences202–201 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences242.3 Mya200.6 Mya

3 occurrences of Meidiichthys on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

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

Muschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°E

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The named rock units Meidiichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Meidiichthys and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Meidiichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Meidiichthys, 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 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 content0

No picture of Meidiichthys was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Meidiichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Meidiichthys 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itPerleididae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brough 1931