Tetragonolepis semicincta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
TetragonolepisPBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Semionotiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Semionotiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Semionotiformes

Time the record covers

At least 69 million years on record.

The record covers at least 182.9 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 192.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 8 of 10 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 10 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous195–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–183 Mya — about 4 occurrences183–180 Mya — about 2 occurrences180–177 Mya — about 1 occurrence177–174 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences174–172 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences172–169 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences126–123 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences123–120 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–111 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182.9 Mya113.2 Mya195 Mya108 Mya

10 occurrences of Tetragonolepis semicincta on record, most of them in the Early 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

10 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

1 formation

Posidonia Shale — 52.31°N, 10.62°E

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The named rock units Tetragonolepis semicincta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Tetragonolepis semicincta and its relatives

Early Jurassic

Where Tetragonolepis semicincta and its relatives were recorded in the Early Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Tetragonolepis semicincta, 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

2 references

Each of the 10 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 Tetragonolepis semicincta 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 Tetragonolepis semicincta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Tetragonolepis semicincta 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 itTetragonolepis through timeFormations of the Early JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bronn 1830