Arenipiscis westolli
No picture of Arenipiscis westolli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Arenipiscis westolli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArenipiscisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Arenipiscis westolli 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
1 formation
- Murrindal Formation · Buchan Group1
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The named rock units Arenipiscis westolli 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.
Arenipiscis westolli and its relatives
DevonianWhere Arenipiscis westolli and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Brindabellaspis stensioi1 site
- Buchanosteus confertituberculatus1 site
- Burrinjucosteus asymmetricus1 site
- Dipnorhynchus sussmilchi1 site
- Errolosteus1 site
- Monarolepis verrucosa1 site
- Richardosteus1 site
- Shearsbyaspis oepiki1 site
- Sherbonaspis hillsi1 site
- Taemasosteus novaustrocambricus1 site
- Toombsosteus denisoni1 site
- Weejasperaspis gavini1 site
- Wijdeaspis warrooensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Arenipiscis westolli, 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
2 references- Evidence for Placoderms from the Mid-Palaeozoic Sandon Beds of North-western New South Wales, Australia1
- New placoderm fishes from the Early Devonian Buchan Group, eastern Victoria1
Each 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 Arenipiscis westolli was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Arenipiscis westolli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arenipiscis westolli 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 itArenipiscis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young 1981