Saurophthirus laevigatus
No picture of Saurophthirus laevigatus 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 Saurophthirus laevigatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SaurophthirusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Insecta
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 121.4 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Saurophthirus laevigatus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Yixian Formation · Jehol Group1
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The named rock units Saurophthirus laevigatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Saurophthirus laevigatus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Saurophthirus laevigatus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Antiqusolidus maculatus1 site
- Cionocoleus cervicalis1 site
- Curtogramma ovatum1 site
- Dehiscensicoris sanctus1 site
- Flexicorpus acutirostratus1 site
- Halonatusivena shii1 site
- Liaotaenionema tenuitibia1 site
- Megabittacus spatiosus1 site
- Microprobelus liuae1 site
- Primipentatoma peregrina1 site
- Pristinochterus ovatus1 site
- Pristinochterus zhangi1 site
- Pseudopulex tanlan1 site
- Rudisiricius belli1 site
- Saurophthirus exquisitus1 site
- Sinopraecipuus bilobatus1 site
- Torrirostratus pilosus1 site
- Vetanthocoris longispicus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Saurophthirus laevigatus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Saurophthirus laevigatus 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 Saurophthirus laevigatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Saurophthirus laevigatus 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 itSaurophthirus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhang et al. 2020