Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychoceratodusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 205.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 227.3 Mya to 143.1 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrences229–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–211 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences176–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences171–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–165 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165–162 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205.7 Mya149.2 Mya229 Mya141 Mya

4 occurrences of Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis 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 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

1 formation

Huai Hin Lat — 16.53°N, 101.63°E

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The named rock units Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis 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.

Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

17 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis, 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

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

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No picture of Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis 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 Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ptychoceratodus szechuanensis 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 itPtychoceratodus through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Young 1942)