Sauropsis

Sauropsis is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.

Sauropsis

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PachycormidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pachycormidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pachycormiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pachycormiformes

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 149.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 145.06 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 4 occurrencesLate Jurassic185–184 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences184–182 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences182–181 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences181–180 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences180–178 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences178–177 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences162–161 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences161–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences156–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–154 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences154–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences146–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174.7 Mya149.2 Mya185 Mya144.3 Mya

4 occurrences of Sauropsis on record. 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

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

Jagua — 22.62°N, 83.71°WSolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°E

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The named rock units Sauropsis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

38 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sauropsis, 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

3 references

Each 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. 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 Sauropsis

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sauropsis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1832