Idiacanthus

Idiacanthus is a genus of barbeled dragonfishes, the larvae of which are noted for exhibiting the Stylophthalmine trait.

Idiacanthus

GM. Woodward · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/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
SelachiiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Selachii
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Selachii
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Selachii

Time the record covers

At most 6.8 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 312.8 Mya and 306 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences313.3 Mya305.5 Mya

1 occurrence of Idiacanthus 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

1 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

Minturn — 39.90°N, 107.77°W

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

Idiacanthus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Idiacanthus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

25 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Idiacanthus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Idiacanthus

Credit
GM. Woodward
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Idiacanthus 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 itSelachii through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gunnell 1933