Palaeoxyris

Palaeoxyris

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
VertebrataPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At least 144 million years on record.

The record covers at least 245.19 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 8 of 9 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrences250–245 Mya — about 7 occurrences245–239 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences245.19 Mya100.5 Mya250 Mya91 Mya

9 occurrences of Palaeoxyris 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

9 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

2 formations

Grès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.20°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.24°EGrès à Voltzia — 49.15°N, 6.86°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.69°N, 7.38°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.88°N, 7.28°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.57°N, 7.48°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EA2 subunit — 45.95°N, 0.90°W

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

Palaeoxyris and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Palaeoxyris, 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

Each of the 9 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 content1

Picture of Palaeoxyris

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeoxyris 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 itVertebrata through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brongniart 1828