Markacanthus alius
No picture of Markacanthus alius 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 Markacanthus alius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MarkacanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 385.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Markacanthus alius 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
1 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 Markacanthus alius has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Markacanthus alius and its relatives
DevonianWhere Markacanthus alius and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
32 taxa- Acanthodidae1 site
- Actinolepis magna1 site
- Asterolepis1 site
- Asterolepis dellei1 site
- Cheiracanthus1 site
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus1 site
- Cheiracanthus longicostatus1 site
- Cheirolepis1 site
- Coccosteus markae1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Diplacanthus carinatus1 site
- Elasmobranchii1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Gyroptychius elgae1 site
- Hamodus1 site
- Heterosteus ingens1 site
- Holonema harmae1 site
- Holoptychiidae1 site
- Homacanthus1 site
- Homacanthus gracilis1 site
- Homostius latus1 site
- Karksilepis parva1 site
- Minioracanthus sp.1 site
- Nostolepis gaujensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Markacanthus alius, 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 referenceEach 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 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 Markacanthus alius 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 Markacanthus alius, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Markacanthus alius was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itMarkacanthus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Valiukevičius 1988