Pleurosaurus goldfussi

No picture of Pleurosaurus goldfussi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pleurosaurus goldfussi itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurosaurus goldfussi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PleurosaurusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
terrestrialPBDB, for Amniota

Time the record covers

At most 9.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 154.8 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 10 of 10 occurrencesLate Jurassic155–155 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–153 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences153–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences155.3 Mya144.6 Mya

10 occurrences of Pleurosaurus goldfussi 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

10 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

2 formations

Solnhofen — 48.92°N, 11.12°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.88°N, 10.95°EMörnsheim — 48.79°N, 10.90°E

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The named rock units Pleurosaurus goldfussi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pleurosaurus goldfussi and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Pleurosaurus goldfussi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

171 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Pleurosaurus goldfussi, 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

6 references

Each of the 10 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 content0

No picture of Pleurosaurus goldfussi was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pleurosaurus goldfussi itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pleurosaurus goldfussi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Meyer 1831