Gyroptychius agassizi

Gyroptychius agassizi

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GyroptychiusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 383.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387.95 Mya385.9 Mya394 Mya382.9 Mya

2 occurrences of Gyroptychius agassizi 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

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

Upper Stromness Flagstones — 59.08°N, 3.32°WHam-Scarfskerry Flagstone — 58.62°N, 3.59°W

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The named rock units Gyroptychius agassizi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gyroptychius agassizi and its relatives

Devonian

Where Gyroptychius agassizi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gyroptychius agassizi, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Gyroptychius agassizi

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gyroptychius agassizi 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 itGyroptychius through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traill 1841