Denisonosteus
No picture of Denisonosteus 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 Denisonosteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArthrodiraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At most 6.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Denisonosteus 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
2 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
1 formation
- Corradigbee Formation · Hatchery Creek Group2
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The named rock units Denisonosteus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Denisonosteus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Denisonosteus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Arthropoda1 site
- Climatiidae1 site
- Coccosteus1 site
- Diplacanthiformes1 site
- Edgellaspis gorteri1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Kenichthys1 site
- Monarolepis verrucosa1 site
- Onychodontidae1 site
- Osteolepiformes1 site
- Sherbonaspis1 site
- Sherbonaspis hillsi1 site
- Tareyacanthus1 site
- Turinia1 site
- Watsonacanthus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Denisonosteus, 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
2 references- Depositional environment, stratigraphy, structure and paleobiology of the Hatchery Creek Group (Early–?Middle Devonian) near Wee Jasper, New South Wales1
- A new fish fauna of Middle Devonian age from the Taemas Wee Jasper region of New South Wales1
Each of the 2 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 Denisonosteus 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 Denisonosteus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Denisonosteus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itArthrodira through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young and Gorter 1981