Ptycholepis schaefferi
No picture of Ptycholepis schaefferi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Ptycholepis schaefferi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtycholepisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 239.48 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Ptycholepis schaefferi 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
4 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Ptycholepis schaefferi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptycholepis schaefferi and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Ptycholepis schaefferi and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Ctenognathichthys bellottii4 sites
- Meridensia meridensis4 sites
- Peltopleurus lissocephalus4 sites
- Pholidopleurus ticinensis4 sites
- Ptycholepis barboi4 sites
- Aetheodontus besanensis3 sites
- Gracilignathichthys microlepis3 sites
- Peripeltopleurus vexillipinnis3 sites
- Pholidopleurus3 sites
- Ptycholepis priscus3 sites
- Acrodus lateralis2 sites
- Bobasatrania ceresiensis2 sites
- Gyrolepis2 sites
- Habroichthys2 sites
- Habroichthys griffithi2 sites
- Habroichthys minimus2 sites
- Luganoia lepidosteoides2 sites
- Peltoperleidus bellipinnis2 sites
- Peltoperleidus macrodontus2 sites
- Peltopleurus nothocephalus2 sites
- Peripeltopleurus hypsisomus2 sites
- Platysiagum minus2 sites
- Ptycholepis magnus2 sites
- Altisolepis elongignathus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Ptycholepis schaefferi, 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 Ptycholepis schaefferi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Ptycholepis schaefferi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptycholepis schaefferi 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 itPtycholepis through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bürgin 1992