Karksilepis parva

No picture of Karksilepis parva 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 Karksilepis parva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
KarksilepisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 5.5 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 387.95 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 385.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393.47 Mya387.95 Mya400 Mya385.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Karksilepis parva 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

Burtnieki — 58.10°N, 25.55°ELepel — 55.41°N, 27.19°E

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

Karksilepis parva and its relatives

Devonian

Where Karksilepis parva and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

41 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Karksilepis parva, 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 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 Karksilepis parva 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 Karksilepis parva, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Karksilepis parva 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 itKarksilepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Märss et al. 2008