Elegestolepis
No picture of Elegestolepis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Elegestolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElegestolepididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 34 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 426.7 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 Elegestolepis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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 occurrencesThese 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
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Elegestolepis 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.
Elegestolepis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Elegestolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Helenolepis2 sites
- Anthinocrinus1 site
- Exaesiodiscus1 site
- Fistulipora1 site
- Hallopora1 site
- Hemitoechia1 site
- Isorthis1 site
- Leioclema1 site
- Lingula1 site
- Lingula minima1 site
- Nuculites1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Paracyclas1 site
- Tannuaspis levenkoi1 site
- Tannuspirifer1 site
- Tuvaella1 site
- Tuvaspis margaritae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elegestolepis, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Elegestolepis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Elegestolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elegestolepis 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 itElegestolepididae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Karatajute-Talimaa 1973