Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus
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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 most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 250.8 Mya and 248.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
11 occurrences of Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus 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
11 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus and its relatives
Early TriassicWhere Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Triassic.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) ornatus6 sites
- Axelia robusta5 sites
- Aphaneramma rostratum4 sites
- Birgeria mougeoti4 sites
- Boreosomus reuterskioldi4 sites
- Pygopterus degeeri4 sites
- Wimania multistriata4 sites
- Lyrocephaliscus euri3 sites
- Mastodonsauridae3 sites
- Saurichthys hamiltoni3 sites
- Saurichthys wimani3 sites
- Scleracanthus asper3 sites
- Teffichthys woodwardi3 sites
- Acrorhabdus bertili2 sites
- Juvenites spathi2 sites
- Mylacanthus spinosus2 sites
- Peltostega erici2 sites
- Platysomus nathorsti2 sites
- Sassenia tuberculata2 sites
- Stereospondyli2 sites
- Wimania2 sites
- Wimania sinuosa2 sites
- Acrorhabdus asplundi1 site
- Acrorhabdus latistriatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus, 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
2 references- Triassic fishes from Spitzbergen, Part II10
- Saurichthys and other fossil fishes from the late Smithian (Early Triassic) of Bear Lake County (Idaho, USA), with a discussion of saurichthyid palaeogeography and evolution1
Each of the 11 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) elongatus 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) elongatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saurichthys (Lepidosaurichthys) elongatus 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. (Stensiö 1925)