Sphenolepis

No picture of Sphenolepis was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenolepis itself, so it was not used. Wikipedia and 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 Sphenolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TaxodiaceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Streptophyta

Time the record covers

At least 53 million years on record.

The record covers at least 143.1 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 161.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 0 of 24 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 14 of 24 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 9 of 24 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 24 occurrencesLate Cretaceous163–160 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences160–158 Mya — about 2 occurrences158–155 Mya — about 2 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 2 occurrences152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–147 Mya — about 2 occurrences147–144 Mya — about 2 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139–136 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences131–128 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences125–123 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–117 Mya — about 1 occurrence117–114 Mya — about 1 occurrence114–112 Mya — about 1 occurrence112–109 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143.1 Mya89.8 Mya163 Mya82 Mya

24 occurrences of Sphenolepis 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

24 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

11 formations

Chengzhi — 45.90°N, 133.00°EMulin — 45.90°N, 133.00°EMuoshishan — 28.20°N, 115.90°EMuoshishan — 28.60°N, 119.30°ECretaceous — 44.65°N, 104.22°WLa Huérguina — 40.06°N, 1.88°WChangan — 43.50°N, 125.50°EGuangde — 30.90°N, 119.40°EShahuozi — 44.20°N, 126.00°EChangchai — 43.20°N, 129.80°EGrès et argiles supérieurs — 39.78°N, 9.23°WCalcari di Monte San Michele — 45.93°N, 13.62°E

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The named rock units Sphenolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Sphenolepis, 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

11 references

Each of the 24 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 content0

No picture of Sphenolepis was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Sphenolepis itself, so it was not used.

Wikipedia and 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 Sphenolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sphenolepis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itTaxodiaceae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1843