Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys)PBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Saurichthyidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Saurichthyidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 300 thousand years on record.
The record covers at least 251.1 Mya to 250.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.902 Mya to 247 Mya.
6 occurrences of Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi on record, most of them in the Early 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
6 occurrences- Early 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
2 taxa- Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) toxolepis3 sites
- aff. Nothosauroidea indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi, 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
3 references- New evidence of Saurichthys from the Lower Triassic with an evaluation of early saurichthyid diversity3
- Remains of Saurichthys (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Early Triassic Wordie Creek Formation of east Greenland2
- Two new fossil fishes from Alberta1
Each of the 6 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.
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No picture of Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi 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 Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) dayi 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 itSaurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) through timeFormations of the Early TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Raymond 1925)