Cheirolepis bychovensis
No picture of Cheirolepis bychovensis 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 Cheirolepis bychovensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CheirolepisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
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.
8 occurrences of Cheirolepis bychovensis 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
8 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.
Cheirolepis bychovensis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Cheirolepis bychovensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Acanthodes7 sites
- Cheiracanthus5 sites
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus5 sites
- Sarcopterygii5 sites
- Cheiracanthus latus4 sites
- Laliacanthus singularis4 sites
- Onychodontiformes4 sites
- Rhadinacanthus primaris4 sites
- Acanthodii3 sites
- Actinopterygii3 sites
- Osteolepididae3 sites
- Placodermi3 sites
- Psammosteoidei3 sites
- Actinolepis zaikai2 sites
- Cheiracanthus splendens2 sites
- Chondrichthyes2 sites
- Diplacanthus2 sites
- Onychodontidae2 sites
- Schizosteus2 sites
- Archaeacanthus1 site
- Byssacanthus dilatatus1 site
- Cheirolepis gracilis1 site
- Euarthrodira1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cheirolepis bychovensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 8 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 Cheirolepis bychovensis 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 Cheirolepis bychovensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cheirolepis bychovensis 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 itCheirolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plax 2022