Actinolepis zaikai
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinolepisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Actinolepis zaikai 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
7 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Actinolepis zaikai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Actinolepis zaikai and its relatives
DevonianWhere Actinolepis zaikai and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Sarcopterygii5 sites
- Actinopterygii4 sites
- Acanthodii3 sites
- Cheiracanthus3 sites
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus3 sites
- Psammolepis toriensis3 sites
- Antiarchi2 sites
- Cheirolepis bychovensis2 sites
- Diplacanthus2 sites
- Laliacanthus singularis2 sites
- Onychodontiformes2 sites
- Acanthodes1 site
- Cheiracanthus latus1 site
- Cheiracanthus longicostatus1 site
- Lingulida1 site
- Onychodontidae1 site
- Placodermi1 site
- Porolepis1 site
- Psammosteoidei1 site
- Psammosteus1 site
- Schizosteus1 site
- Selaginellites gracilis1 site
- Sherbonaspis talimaae1 site
- Stipatosteus svidunovitchi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Actinolepis zaikai, 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
3 references- New Early Devonian (late Emsian) placoderms from Belarus4
- A new species of ray-finned fish (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the upper Emsian and lowermost Eifelian deposits of Belarus2
- A new Early Devonian antiarch placoderm from Belarus, and the phylogeny of Asterolepidoidei1
Each of the 7 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 Actinolepis zaikai 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 Actinolepis zaikai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinolepis zaikai 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 itActinolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plax and Newman 2020