Elonichthys ellsi
No picture of Elonichthys ellsi 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 Elonichthys ellsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElonichthysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Elonichthys ellsi on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
- Albert Formation · Horton Group1
- Snakes Bight Formation · Anguille Group1
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The named rock units Elonichthys ellsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elonichthys ellsi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Elonichthys ellsi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Elonichthys brownii2 sites
- Rhadinichthys alberti2 sites
- Acrolepis1 site
- Acrolepis hortonensis1 site
- Amblypterus1 site
- Canobius1 site
- Lambeia pectinatus1 site
- Palaeoniscum1 site
- Rhadinichthys1 site
- Rhadinichthys cairnsii1 site
- Rhadinichthys canobiensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elonichthys ellsi, 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- Biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental significance of palaeoniscid fish and vascular plant remains from the Snakes Bight Formation (Anguille Group), Codroy area, southwestern Newfoundland1
- Catalogue of Canadian fossil fishes1
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 Elonichthys ellsi 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 Elonichthys ellsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elonichthys ellsi 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.
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What may have been alongside itElonichthys through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lambe 1909