Parapholidophorus

Parapholidophorus is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.

Parapholidophorus

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
PholidophoridaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pholidophoridae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pholidophoridae

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 211.18 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 205.7 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 2 of 3 occurrencesLate Triassic242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences211–210 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237 Mya211.18 Mya242.2 Mya205 Mya

3 occurrences of Parapholidophorus 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

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

3 formations

Riva di Solto — 45.83°N, 9.65°EZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°EMuschelkalk — 41.26°N, 1.14°E

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

Parapholidophorus and its relatives

Late Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

33 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Parapholidophorus, 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 content1

Picture of Parapholidophorus

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

No 3D scan of Parapholidophorus 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 itPholidophoridae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.