Pholidopleurus

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

Pholidopleurus

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
PholidopleuridaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 241.464 Mya to 237 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 243.43 Mya to 233.6 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 12 of 17 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 5 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic244–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 2 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–241 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–240 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences240–239 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–239 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–238 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences238–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences237–237 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences237–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–236 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences236–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–235 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences235–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–234 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences234–233 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences241.464 Mya237 Mya243.9 Mya233.1 Mya

17 occurrences of Pholidopleurus 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

17 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

Besano — 45.91°N, 8.95°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°EPerledo-Varenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°E

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The named rock units Pholidopleurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pholidopleurus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

101 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Pholidopleurus, 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

8 references

Each of the 17 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 content2

Picture of Pholidopleurus

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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
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Specimen
Pholidopleurus typus · nhmuk:pal:PV P 19314

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 itPholidopleuridae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1858