Thrissops

Thrissops is an extinct genus of stem-teleost fish from the Jurassic period. Its fossils are known from the Solnhofen Limestone, as well as the Kimmeridge Clay.

Thrissops

H. Zell · 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
AllothrissopidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes

Time the record covers

At least 48 million years on record.

The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 5 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 9 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 9 occurrencesLate Cretaceous153–151 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences151–149 Mya — about 1 occurrence149–147 Mya — about 1 occurrence147–145 Mya — about 1 occurrence145–143 Mya — about 1 occurrence143–141 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences141–139 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences139–137 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences97–95 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences149.2 Mya100.5 Mya153 Mya93 Mya

9 occurrences of Thrissops 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

9 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

Solnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.94°N, 8.41°EGrünsandstein — 48.93°N, 11.83°EAkkuyu — 37.38°N, 31.50°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EStarigrad Limestone — 43.19°N, 16.65°E

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The named rock units Thrissops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thrissops and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Thrissops and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

127 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Thrissops, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 content3

Picture of Thrissops

Credit
H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Synchrotron Imaging scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Thrissops formosus · nhmuk:pal:pv or 35013

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

Smithsonian Open Access was 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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What may have been alongside itAllothrissopidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1833