Peltopleurus

Peltopleurus is an extinct genus of bony fish.

Peltopleurus

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
PeltopleuridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 244.4 Mya to 201.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 37 of 44 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 6 of 44 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 44 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 44 occurrences251–247 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences247–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 22 occurrences240–236 Mya — about 14 occurrences236–232 Mya — about 2 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences214–210 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–178 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences178–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences244.4 Mya201.4 Mya251 Mya141 Mya

44 occurrences of Peltopleurus 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

44 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

14 formations

Besano — 45.91°N, 8.95°EBesano — 45.90°N, 8.96°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°EMuschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°EFalang — 25.20°N, 105.01°EFalang — 25.14°N, 104.57°EFalang — 25.13°N, 104.75°EMeride — 45.89°N, 8.95°ESeefelder — 47.32°N, 11.22°EReingrabener Schiefer — 47.88°N, 15.07°EMeride — 45.88°N, 8.90°ETerrigal — 33.43°S, 151.34°EProsanto — 46.70°N, 9.84°EDolomia Principale — 40.72°N, 14.95°ECassina — 45.91°N, 8.95°EGuanling — 24.71°N, 104.33°ESciliar — 46.35°N, 12.02°E

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The named rock units Peltopleurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Peltopleurus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

245 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Peltopleurus, 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

24 references

Each of the 44 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. 12 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 Peltopleurus

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

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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 itPeltopleuridae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kner 1866