Gyrolepis rankinii

No picture of Gyrolepis rankinii 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 Gyrolepis rankinii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GyrolepisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 3.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 326.9 Mya to 323.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 315.2 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326.9 Mya323.4 Mya330.8 Mya314.7 Mya

2 occurrences of Gyrolepis rankinii 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

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

Manse Burn — 55.80°N, 4.18°W

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The named rock units Gyrolepis rankinii 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.

Gyrolepis rankinii and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Gyrolepis rankinii and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gyrolepis rankinii, 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

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Gyrolepis rankinii 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 Gyrolepis rankinii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gyrolepis rankinii 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 itGyrolepis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1844