Myriolepis

No picture of Myriolepis 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 Myriolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeoniscidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 75 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 241.464 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 237 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 6 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 4 of 6 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 0 of 6 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences250–247 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences247–244 Mya — about 2 occurrences244–241 Mya — about 1 occurrence241–238 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences238–235 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316.9 Mya241.464 Mya320 Mya235 Mya

6 occurrences of Myriolepis 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

6 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

4 formations

Ashfield Shale — 33.91°S, 151.19°ETerrigal — 33.43°S, 151.34°ELos Rastros — 30.10°S, 67.99°WCoolbaun Formation — 52.81°N, 7.20°W

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The named rock units Myriolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Myriolepis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

65 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Myriolepis, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Myriolepis 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 Myriolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Myriolepis 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.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Egerton 1864