Pholidophorus pusillus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PholidophorusPBDB
- Diet
- suspension feederPBDB, for Pholidophoridae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pholidophoridae
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Pholidophorus pusillus 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
4 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Pholidophorus pusillus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pholidophorus pusillus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Pholidophorus pusillus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Colobodus latus4 sites
- Paralepidotus ornatus4 sites
- Pholidophorus latiusculus4 sites
- Heterolepidotus cephalus3 sites
- Peltopleurus humilis3 sites
- Heterolepidotus dorsalis2 sites
- Heterolepidotus striatus2 sites
- Belonorhynchus1 site
- Dapedius costai1 site
- Eugnathus brachilepis1 site
- Furo insignis1 site
- Holophagus picenus1 site
- Italopterus magnificus1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Lepidotus parvulus1 site
- Saurichthys deperditus1 site
- Undina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pholidophorus pusillus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
4 references- On certain Triassic and Liassic representatives of the family Pholidophoridae s. str1
- La ittiofauna della Dolomia Principale di Giffoni (Provincia di Salerno)1
- Pesci fossili di Lumezzane in val Trompia1
- Die fossilen Fische der Asphaltschiefer von Seefeld in Tirol1
Each of the 4 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pholidophorus pusillus 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 Pholidophorus pusillus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pholidophorus pusillus 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 itPholidophorus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1833