Homosteus milleri

Homosteus milleri

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HomostiusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira

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 382.31 Mya.

Devonian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387.95 Mya385.9 Mya394 Mya381.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Homosteus milleri 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

7 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

7 formations

Lybster Flagstone — 58.47°N, 3.46°WUpper Stromness Flagstones — 59.08°N, 3.32°WMelby — 60.29°N, 1.70°WSpital Flagstone — 58.47°N, 3.42°WHam-Scarfskerry Flagstone — 58.62°N, 3.59°WBerriedale Flagstone — 58.57°N, 3.47°WMey Flagstone — 58.60°N, 3.53°W

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

Homosteus milleri and its relatives

Devonian

Where Homosteus milleri and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

30 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Homosteus milleri, 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 references

Each of the 7 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 Homosteus milleri

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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.

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1849