Cheiracanthus splendens
No picture of Cheiracanthus splendens 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 splendens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cheiracanthus splendens 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
5 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 splendens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cheiracanthus splendens and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cheiracanthus splendens and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Sarcopterygii3 sites
- Acanthodes2 sites
- Acanthodii2 sites
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus2 sites
- Cheirolepis bychovensis2 sites
- Laliacanthus singularis2 sites
- Onychodontiformes2 sites
- Osteolepididae2 sites
- Rhadinacanthus primaris2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Antiarchi1 site
- Byssacanthus dilatatus1 site
- Cephalaspidida1 site
- Cheiracanthoides1 site
- Cheiracanthus latus1 site
- Cheiracanthus longicostatus1 site
- Cheirolepis gracilis1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Coccosteidae1 site
- Dipnoi1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Holonema1 site
- Karksilepis parva1 site
- Onychodontidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cheiracanthus splendens, 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
3 references- A new species of ray-finned fish (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the upper Emsian and lowermost Eifelian deposits of Belarus2
- New Early Devonian (late Emsian) placoderms from Belarus2
- Kleinschuppen, Flossenstacheln und Zähne von Fischen aus europäischen und nordamerikanischen Bonebeds des Devons1
Each of the 5 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 splendens 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 splendens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cheiracanthus splendens was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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