Elonichthys semistriatus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElonichthysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 1.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.7 Mya to 307 Mya.
3 occurrences of Elonichthys semistriatus 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
3 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
- Pennine Middle Coal Measures Formation · Pennine Coal Measures Group2
- Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation1
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The named rock units Elonichthys semistriatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elonichthys semistriatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Elonichthys semistriatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Platysomus parvulus3 sites
- Elonichthys egertoni2 sites
- Mesolepis wardi2 sites
- Platysomus2 sites
- Amphicentrum crassum1 site
- Amphicentrum granulosum1 site
- Mesolepis1 site
- Mesolepis microptera1 site
- Mesolepis scalaris1 site
- Mesonichthys aitkeni1 site
- Protohaplolepis traquairi1 site
- Pseudogonatodus aurulentum1 site
- Pseudohaplolepis argentatum1 site
- Rhadinichthys grossarti1 site
- Rhadinichthys macrodon1 site
- Rhadinichthys monensis1 site
- Rhadinichthys ornatocephalum1 site
- Rhadinichthys wardi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Elonichthys semistriatus, 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- An early actinopterygian ichthyofauna from the Scottish Lower Coal Measures Formation: Westphalian A (Bashkirian)1
- The Structure of Certain Palæoniscids and the Relationships of that Group with other Bony Fish1
- The Ganoid Fishes of the British Carboniferous Formations. Part 1. Palæoniscidæ. Pages 1–60; Plates I–VII1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Elonichthys semistriatus 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 Elonichthys semistriatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elonichthys semistriatus 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. Traquair 1877