Ptycholepididae

Ptycholepididae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtycholepidiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 101 million years on record.

The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 137.05 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 101 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 35 of 101 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 37 of 101 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 5 of 101 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 20 of 101 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 101 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 101 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 101 occurrences254–250 Mya — about 19 occurrences250–246 Mya — about 17 occurrences246–242 Mya — about 14 occurrences242–238 Mya — about 18 occurrences238–234 Mya — about 7 occurrences234–230 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences230–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–222 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences222–218 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences218–214 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences214–210 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences210–206 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences206–202 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences202–198 Mya — about 7 occurrences198–194 Mya — about 5 occurrences194–190 Mya — about 2 occurrences187–183 Mya — about 4 occurrences183–179 Mya — about 1 occurrence179–175 Mya — about 1 occurrence171–167 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences151–147 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences147–143 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences143–139 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences139–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences251.1 Mya149.2 Mya254 Mya135 Mya

101 occurrences of Ptycholepididae 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

101 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

26 formations

Besano — 45.91°N, 8.95°EBesano — 45.90°N, 8.96°EKongressfjellet — 78.24°N, 17.21°EKongressfjellet — 78.28°N, 17.63°EKongressfjellet — 78.57°N, 15.32°EKongressfjellet — 78.62°N, 14.43°EMuschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°EBesano — 45.89°N, 8.90°EShuttle Meadow — 41.42°N, 72.72°WShuttle Meadow — 41.40°N, 72.77°WMoenkopi — 34.92°N, 110.26°WMarnes de Jamoigne — 49.72°N, 5.22°EQigu — 43.55°N, 87.26°EMoskovoretskaya — 55.20°N, 38.78°ESulphur Mountain — 54.53°N, 120.74°WPhu Kradung — 16.87°N, 101.72°EMidland — 38.62°N, 77.74°WSticky Keep — 78.34°N, 16.30°EFavret — 40.06°N, 117.56°WHongyanjing — 41.95°N, 96.53°ESpray River — 54.54°N, 120.79°WVardebukta — 77.03°N, 16.21°EMiddle Sakamena — 13.51°S, 49.07°ETiaojishan — 40.87°N, 119.99°EDont — 46.74°N, 12.12°EBoonton — 40.90°N, 74.40°WCandelaria — 38.13°N, 118.03°WBull Canyon — 34.98°N, 104.15°WBull Run — 38.82°N, 77.71°W

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The named rock units Ptycholepididae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 45 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ptycholepididae and its relatives

Middle Triassic

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

Found in the same rock

577 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 78 sites for Ptycholepididae, 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

36 references

Each of the 101 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. 24 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Ptycholepididae

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Licence
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Commercial use
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No 3D scan of Ptycholepididae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPtycholepidiformes through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Brough 1939