Saurorhamphus

Saurorhamphus is an extinct genus of aulopiform ray-finned fish. Fossils are known from the Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) of the former Tethyan region, but an undescribed specimen is also known from Mexico.

No picture of Saurorhamphus 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 Saurorhamphus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EurypholidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 12 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 4 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous122–121 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences120–119 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–116 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences116–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113.2 Mya100.5 Mya122 Mya93.3 Mya

5 occurrences of Saurorhamphus 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

5 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

5 formations

Bet Meir or Amminadav — 31.95°N, 35.26°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WSierra Madre — 16.68°N, 93.46°WCintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WSannine — 34.06°N, 35.69°E

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The named rock units Saurorhamphus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

110 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Saurorhamphus, 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

4 references

Each of the 5 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

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No picture of Saurorhamphus 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 Saurorhamphus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Saurorhamphus 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. Heckel 1850