Furcacauda heintzae
No picture of Furcacauda heintzae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Furcacauda heintzae 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 Furcacauda heintzae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FurcacaudaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 21 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 399.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Furcacauda heintzae 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Furcacauda heintzae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Furcacauda heintzae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Furcacauda heintzae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
40 taxa- Acanthodii1 site
- Aserotaspis canadensis1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Brochoadmones milesi1 site
- Canadapteraspis alocostomata1 site
- Cassidiceps vermiculatus1 site
- Cephalaspis1 site
- Cephalaspis gabrielsei1 site
- Cometicercus talimaaae1 site
- Cyathaspididae1 site
- Dentapelta loefflerae1 site
- Diademaspis mackenziensis1 site
- Dinaspidella1 site
- Dinaspidella elizabethae1 site
- Drepanolepis maerssae1 site
- Eurypterida1 site
- Furcacauda fredholmae1 site
- Glabrapelta cristata1 site
- Glabrapelta minima1 site
- Gladiobranchus probaton1 site
- Heterostraci1 site
- Kathemacanthus rosulentus1 site
- Lepidaspis serrata1 site
- Lupopsyroides macracanthus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Furcacauda heintzae, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
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- The Furcacaudiformes: a new order of jawless vertebrates with thelodont scales, based on articulated Silurian and Devonian fossils from northern Canada1
- Ostracoderm faunas of the Delorne and associated Siluri-Devonian Formations, North Western Territories, Canada1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Furcacauda heintzae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Furcacauda heintzae 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 Furcacauda heintzae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Furcacauda heintzae 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.
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What may have been alongside itFurcacauda through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dineley and Loeffler 1976