Cheirolepis trailli

Cheirolepis trailli

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
CheirolepisPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences394 Mya387.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Cheirolepis trailli 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

7 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

2 formations

Lybster Flagstone — 57.64°N, 3.03°WLybster Flagstone — 57.68°N, 2.34°WLybster Flagstone — 58.47°N, 3.46°WLybster Flagstone — 57.83°N, 4.18°WLybster Flagstone — 57.54°N, 3.76°WLybster Flagstone — 57.68°N, 4.03°WUpper Stromness Flagstones — 59.08°N, 3.32°W

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

Cheirolepis trailli and its relatives

Devonian

Where Cheirolepis trailli and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Cheirolepis trailli, 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

Each of the 7 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

Media content2

Picture of Cheirolepis trailli

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Synchrotron Imaging scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Cheirolepis trailli · NHMUK:PAL:PV P 62908 b

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. Agassiz 1835