Chelyophorus

No picture of Chelyophorus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chelyophorus itself, so it was not used. 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 Chelyophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtyctodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi

Time the record covers

At least 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 3 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 1 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 3 occurrences374–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences363–361 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences361–358 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–308 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358.86 Mya323.4 Mya374 Mya297 Mya

3 occurrences of Chelyophorus on record. 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

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

Ketleri — 56.70°N, 22.13°ETērvete — 56.46°N, 23.25°E

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The named rock units Chelyophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chelyophorus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

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. 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 content0

No picture of Chelyophorus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chelyophorus itself, so it was not used.

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 Chelyophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Chelyophorus 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPtyctodontidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1845