Ankylacanthus convexus
No picture of Ankylacanthus convexus 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 Ankylacanthus convexus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnkylacanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ankylacanthus convexus 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
2 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Ankylacanthus convexus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ankylacanthus convexus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ankylacanthus convexus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- ? Protaspis rotunda1 site
- Acanthodii1 site
- Ankylacanthus incurvus1 site
- Arthrodira1 site
- Drepanaspis schrieli1 site
- Drepanophycus spinaeformis1 site
- Porolepidiformes1 site
- Prototaxites1 site
- Rhenopterus tuberculatus1 site
- Rhinopteraspis dunensis1 site
- Rhinopteraspis lata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ankylacanthus convexus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ankylacanthus convexus 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 Ankylacanthus convexus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ankylacanthus convexus 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 itAnkylacanthus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Burrow et al. 2008