Paralepidotus

Paralepidotus is an extinct genus of prehistoric ray-finned fish.

Paralepidotus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CallipurbeckiidaePBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Semionotiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Semionotiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Semionotiformes

Time the record covers

At least 38 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 247 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 35 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 5 of 35 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 30 of 35 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 35 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences246–245 Mya — about 1 occurrence245–243 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences242–240 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences237–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–226 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences226–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–223 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 4 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 9 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 9 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences208–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–205 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 1 occurrence204–202 Mya — about 1 occurrence202–200 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences244.4 Mya205.7 Mya247.9 Mya200.5 Mya

35 occurrences of Paralepidotus on record, most of them in the Late 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

35 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

7 formations

Calcare di Zorzino — 45.82°N, 9.60°ECalcare di Zorzino — 45.79°N, 9.68°EHauptdolomit — 47.73°N, 13.14°EDolomia Principale — 40.72°N, 14.95°EDolomia Principale — 45.83°N, 9.51°EDolomia Principale — 46.03°N, 9.19°ESeefelder — 47.32°N, 11.22°EFavret — 40.06°N, 117.56°WJilh — 26.39°N, 44.24°EKössen — 47.13°N, 9.85°E

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The named rock units Paralepidotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paralepidotus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Paralepidotus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Paralepidotus, 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

17 references

Each of the 35 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Paralepidotus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paralepidotus 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

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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 itCallipurbeckiidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stolley 1919