Cabonnichthys burnsi

Cabonnichthys is an extinct genus of tristichopterid fish that lived in the Late Devonian period (Famennian) of Australia. It has been found in Canowindra and is a medium-sized carnivorous lobe-finned fish.

Cabonnichthys burnsi

Skull_and_shoulder-girdle_restorations_of_Tristichopterids.jpg : ? derivative work: Haplochromis · 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
CabonnichthysPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 1 occurrence372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372.6 Mya358.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Cabonnichthys burnsi 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

1 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

1 formation

Mandagery Sandstone — 33.59°S, 148.55°E

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The named rock units Cabonnichthys burnsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Cabonnichthys burnsi and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cabonnichthys burnsi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Cabonnichthys burnsi, 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Cabonnichthys burnsi

Credit
Skull_and_shoulder-girdle_restorations_of_Tristichopterids.jpg : ? derivative work: Haplochromis
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cabonnichthys burnsi was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itCabonnichthys through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ahlberg and Johanson 1997