Silicisphinctes sp.

No picture of Silicisphinctes sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Silicisphinctes sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Time the record covers

At most 7.2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 145.06 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Jurassic152–152 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152–152 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences152–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–151 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences151–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–150 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences150–149 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–147 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences147–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–146 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences145–145 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences152.7 Mya144.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Silicisphinctes sp. on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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

2 formations

Liegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EHangende-Bankkalke — 47.89°N, 8.80°E

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

Silicisphinctes sp. and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Silicisphinctes sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Silicisphinctes sp., 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

2 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 Silicisphinctes sp. was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Silicisphinctes sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.