Heteroctenus sp.
Heteroctenus is a genus of scorpions. The following species are assigned to this genus:Heteroctenus abudi (Armas & Marcano Fondeur, 1987) Heteroctenus aridicola (Teruel & Armas, 2012) Heteroctenus bonettii (Armas, 1999) Heteroctenus garridoi (Armas, 1974) Heteroctenus gibarae (Teruel, 2006) Heteroctenus granulimanus (Teruel, 2006) Heteroctenus junceus (Herbst, 1800) Heteroctenus melloleitaoi (Teruel & Armas, 2006) Heteroctenus princeps (Karsch, 1879)
No picture of Heteroctenus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Heteroctenus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Heteroctenus sp. 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heteroctenus sp. 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.
Heteroctenus sp. and its relatives
DevonianWhere Heteroctenus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Cytherellina2 sites
- Howellella2 sites
- Mutationella2 sites
- Tentaculites2 sites
- Acastava1 site
- Acastella1 site
- Acastella heberti elsana1 site
- Acastella tiro1 site
- Arisaigia postornata1 site
- Atrypa1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Camarotoechia1 site
- Cornikloedenia1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Cyrtina1 site
- Evlanella1 site
- Ganetops ebbae1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Heldia sp.1 site
- Heteroctenus rugosus1 site
- Homeospira gdoumontensis1 site
- Leptodesma1 site
- Mesodouvillina1 site
- Mesodouvillina subinterstrialis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heteroctenus sp., 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 referencesEach 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 Heteroctenus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Heteroctenus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Heteroctenus sp. 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.