Metopacanthus granulatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MetopacanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 199.5 Mya and 192.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Metopacanthus granulatus 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
4 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.
Metopacanthus granulatus and its relatives
Early JurassicWhere Metopacanthus granulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Caturus heterurus3 sites
- Chondrosteus acipenseroides3 sites
- Coccolepis liassicus3 sites
- Dapedium colei3 sites
- Dapedium granulatum3 sites
- Dapedium magnevillei3 sites
- Dapedium milloti3 sites
- Dapedium politum3 sites
- Dapedium radiatum3 sites
- Dorsetichthys bechei3 sites
- Eugnathus minor3 sites
- Eugnathus philpotiae3 sites
- Furo orthostomus3 sites
- Heterolepidotus latus3 sites
- Myriacanthus paradoxus3 sites
- Oxygnathus ornatus3 sites
- Pholidophoroides crenulata3 sites
- Pholidophoroides limbata3 sites
- Pholidophoropsis caudalis3 sites
- Ptycholepis curtus3 sites
- Ptycholepis gracilis3 sites
- Squaloraja polyspondyla3 sites
- Acrodus anningiae2 sites
- Acrodus nobilis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Metopacanthus granulatus, 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- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II3
- On a new chimaeroid fish from the Lias of Lyme Regis (Ischyodus orthorhinus)1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Metopacanthus granulatus 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 Metopacanthus granulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itMetopacanthus through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1837)