Gyracanthidae

No picture of Gyracanthidae was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Gyracanthidae itself, so it was not used. Wikidata 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 Gyracanthidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ClimatiiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii

Time the record covers

At least 87 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 23 occurrencesDevonian — about 13 of 23 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 10 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 23 occurrences422–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–414 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences414–409 Mya — about 2 occurrences409–405 Mya — about 2 occurrences405–401 Mya — about 2 occurrences401–397 Mya — about 2 occurrences397–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–389 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences389–384 Mya — about 1 occurrence384–380 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences376–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–368 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences368–363 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences359–355 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences355–351 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences351–347 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences347–343 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences343–338 Mya — about 1 occurrence338–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–330 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences330–326 Mya — about 2 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 1 occurrence322–317 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–301 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410.62 Mya323.4 Mya422 Mya296 Mya

23 occurrences of Gyracanthidae 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

23 occurrences

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

13 formations

Campbellton — 48.70°N, 65.75°WCampbellton — 48.00°N, 66.70°WCatavi — 18.45°S, 64.80°WGydo — 33.30°S, 21.83°EWitpoort — 33.32°S, 26.54°EBluefield — 39.57°N, 79.85°WPoint Edward — 46.17°N, 60.27°WLower Limestone — 55.87°N, 3.17°WWahnbach — 50.94°N, 7.29°EDucabrook — 23.93°S, 147.38°ESnowy Plains — 36.98°S, 146.12°EAztec Siltstone — 78.46°S, 158.84°EGravel Point — 45.40°N, 84.92°WKush Yeilagh — 36.85°N, 55.35°E

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The named rock units Gyracanthidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gyracanthidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Gyracanthidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

263 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Gyracanthidae, 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

17 references

Each of the 23 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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

Media content0

No picture of Gyracanthidae was found. iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Gyracanthidae itself, so it was not used.

Wikidata 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 Gyracanthidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itClimatiiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1906