Pholidophorus radians
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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 least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 93.9 Mya.
4 occurrences of Pholidophorus radians on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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 occurrencesThese 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
- Grünsandstein Formation1
- Solnhofen Formation1
- Altmühltal Formation · Weißjura Group1
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The named rock units Pholidophorus radians 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 radians and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Pholidophorus radians and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
86 taxa- Caturus furcatus3 sites
- Caturus pachyurus3 sites
- Allothrissops salmoneus2 sites
- Amiopsis lepidota2 sites
- Anaethalion knorri2 sites
- Aspidorhynchus mandibularis2 sites
- Aspidorhynchus ornatissimus2 sites
- Belonostomus sphyraenoides2 sites
- Caturus elongatus2 sites
- Megalurus polyspondylus2 sites
- Propterus speciosus2 sites
- Thrissops angustus2 sites
- Thrissops formosus2 sites
- Acanthochirana cordata1 site
- Aeger spinipes1 site
- Aeger tipularius1 site
- Aethalion blainvellei1 site
- Allothrissops mesogaster1 site
- Altmuehlfuro boomerang1 site
- Antrimpos speciosus1 site
- Araucarites1 site
- Archaeopteryx lithographica1 site
- Aspidorhynchus obtusirostris1 site
- Athrotaxites lycopodioides1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Pholidophorus radians, 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
1 referenceEach 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 radians 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 radians, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pholidophorus radians 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 JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1834