Cheirodopsis geikiei
No picture of Cheirodopsis geikiei 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 Cheirodopsis geikiei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheirodopsisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 335.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Cheirodopsis geikiei on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
3 formations
- Glencartholm Volcanic Beds Formation · Upper Border Group1
- Tyne limestone Formation · Yoredale Group1
- Calciferous Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Cheirodopsis geikiei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cheirodopsis geikiei and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cheirodopsis geikiei and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
43 taxa- Elonichthys pulcherrimus3 sites
- Elonichthys serratus3 sites
- Phanerosteon mirabile3 sites
- Rhadinichthys canobiensis3 sites
- Canobius2 sites
- Canobius elegantulus2 sites
- Cycloptychius concentricus2 sites
- Holurus parki2 sites
- Mesopoma2 sites
- Mesopoma fusiforme2 sites
- Mesopoma politum2 sites
- Mesopoma pulchellum2 sites
- Paramesolepis rhomba2 sites
- Platysomus superbus2 sites
- Proteurynotus traquairi2 sites
- Rhadinichthys2 sites
- Rhadinichthys macconochii2 sites
- Tarrasius problematicus2 sites
- Acanthodes nitidus1 site
- Acrolepis ortholepis1 site
- Adelophthalmus perornatus1 site
- Antliodus1 site
- Canobius ramsayi1 site
- Chondrenchelys problematica1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cheirodopsis geikiei, 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
2 references- Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Volume 8A: Actinopterygii I2
- Report on Fishes coll by Geol Surv in Eskdale and Liddesdale1
Each of the 3 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 Cheirodopsis geikiei 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 Cheirodopsis geikiei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cheirodopsis geikiei 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 itCheirodopsis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1881