Acanthodidae

No picture of Acanthodidae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Acanthodidae itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acanthodidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthodiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii

Time the record covers

At least 105 million years on record.

The record covers at least 399.5 Mya to 293.52 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Devonian — about 49 of 105 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 34 of 105 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 22 of 105 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 105 occurrences414–408 Mya — about 2 occurrences408–403 Mya — about 4 occurrences403–397 Mya — about 5 occurrences397–392 Mya — about 7 occurrences392–386 Mya — about 9 occurrences386–381 Mya — about 11 occurrences381–375 Mya — about 2 occurrences375–370 Mya — about 2 occurrences370–364 Mya — about 3 occurrences364–359 Mya — about 4 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 2 occurrences353–348 Mya — about 2 occurrences348–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–337 Mya — about 5 occurrences337–331 Mya — about 2 occurrences331–326 Mya — about 2 occurrences326–320 Mya — about 2 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 6 occurrences315–309 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences309–304 Mya — about 3 occurrences304–298 Mya — about 10 occurrences298–293 Mya — about 15 occurrences293–287 Mya — about 4 occurrences287–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–265 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences265–260 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399.5 Mya293.52 Mya414 Mya249 Mya

105 occurrences of Acanthodidae on record, most of them in the Devonian. 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

105 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

43 formations

Wild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WVrchlabi — 50.57°N, 15.39°EVrchlabi — 50.62°N, 15.60°EBurtnieki — 58.10°N, 25.55°EGullane — 55.98°N, 3.21°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.13°N, 3.09°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.11°N, 3.03°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.21°N, 3.04°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.17°N, 3.09°WSalairka Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°EVrchlabí — 50.62°N, 15.37°ELower Os’kin — 55.45°N, 90.06°EMeisenheim — 49.41°N, 7.78°EMeisenheim — 49.41°N, 6.91°ELybster flagstone — 57.68°N, 4.03°WLybster flagstone — 57.68°N, 2.34°WLybster flagstone — 58.47°N, 3.46°WWreford Limestone — 39.05°N, 96.75°WWreford Limestone — 37.86°N, 96.58°WEscuminac — 48.11°N, 66.40°WRēzekne — 56.51°N, 27.33°EHeath — 46.97°N, 109.04°WHeath — 46.95°N, 108.96°WBelovo Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EShanda Horizon — 54.28°N, 85.93°EManning Canyon — 40.39°N, 111.97°WQianheishan — 36.56°N, 104.68°EGlencartholm Volcanic Beds — 55.20°N, 3.07°WBern Limestone — 39.82°N, 95.41°WLaborcita — 33.08°N, 106.08°WRenière — 46.64°N, 3.04°EGogo — 18.68°S, 125.71°EGarber Sandstone — 34.53°N, 98.89°W

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The named rock units Acanthodidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthodidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Acanthodidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

801 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 84 sites for Acanthodidae, 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

43 references

Each of the 105 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. 31 further references are not listed. 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 Acanthodidae was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

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

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Acanthodidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Huxley 1861