Cheiracanthus brevicostatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheiracanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
11 occurrences of Cheiracanthus brevicostatus 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
11 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 Cheiracanthus brevicostatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cheiracanthus brevicostatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cheiracanthus brevicostatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
97 taxa- Acanthodes7 sites
- Sarcopterygii6 sites
- Actinopterygii5 sites
- Cheiracanthus latus5 sites
- Cheirolepis bychovensis5 sites
- Glyptolepis5 sites
- Acanthodii4 sites
- Diplacanthus4 sites
- Actinolepis zaikai3 sites
- Antiarchi3 sites
- Asterolepis3 sites
- Cheiracanthus longicostatus3 sites
- Haplacanthus marginalis3 sites
- Onychodontiformes3 sites
- Onychodus3 sites
- Psammolepis3 sites
- Psammosteoidei3 sites
- Psammosteus3 sites
- Rhadinacanthus primaris3 sites
- Schizosteus3 sites
- Actinolepis magna2 sites
- Asterolepis dellei2 sites
- Byssacanthus2 sites
- Cheiracanthus splendens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Cheiracanthus brevicostatus, 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
4 references- A new species of ray-finned fish (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the upper Emsian and lowermost Eifelian deposits of Belarus5
- A new species of the Devonian actinopterygian fish Moythomasia from Belarus2
- New Early Devonian (late Emsian) placoderms from Belarus2
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates2
Each of the 11 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 Cheiracanthus brevicostatus 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 Cheiracanthus brevicostatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cheiracanthus brevicostatus 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 itCheiracanthus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gross 1973