Ganopristodus splendens
No picture of Ganopristodus splendens 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 Ganopristodus splendens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GanopristodusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 326.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ganopristodus splendens 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
1 formation
- Limestone Coal Formation · Clackmannan Group1
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The named rock units Ganopristodus splendens 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.
Ganopristodus splendens and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ganopristodus splendens and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
15 taxa- Actinopterygii1 site
- Anthracosauria1 site
- Colosteidae1 site
- Crassigyrinus scoticus1 site
- Dipnoi1 site
- Doragnathus1 site
- Doragnathus woodi1 site
- Embolomeri1 site
- Eoherpeton watsoni1 site
- Gyracanthus1 site
- Lepospondyli1 site
- Pseudogonatodus1 site
- Pseudogonatodus parvidens1 site
- Sarcopterygii1 site
- Spathicephalus mirus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ganopristodus splendens, 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
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No picture of Ganopristodus splendens 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 Ganopristodus splendens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ganopristodus splendens 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 itGanopristodus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1881