Moythomasia

Moythomasia is an extinct genus of early ray-finned fish from the Devonian period, known from fossils found in Europe and Australia.

Moythomasia

Oilshale · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
ActinopteriPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 298.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 35 of 40 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 5 of 40 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 40 occurrences395–392 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences392–389 Mya — about 1 occurrence389–386 Mya — about 2 occurrences386–382 Mya — about 6 occurrences382–379 Mya — about 10 occurrences379–376 Mya — about 4 occurrences376–372 Mya — about 5 occurrences372–369 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 2 occurrences366–363 Mya — about 2 occurrences363–359 Mya — about 1 occurrence359–356 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences356–353 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences353–349 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences340–336 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences317–313 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–300 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387.95 Mya358.86 Mya395 Mya297 Mya

40 occurrences of Moythomasia 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

40 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

20 formations

Gogo — 18.57°S, 125.95°EGogo — 18.30°S, 126.50°EOberer Plattenkalk — 50.99°N, 7.15°EVirgin Hills — 17.91°S, 125.90°EVirgin Hills — 18.23°S, 126.08°EBicken-Ense — 51.12°N, 9.12°EKovanshchina — 54.13°N, 36.56°EBurtnieki — 58.10°N, 25.55°EGorodok — 55.46°N, 29.98°ELan' — 52.16°N, 27.30°EDankov-Lebedyan Beds — 52.97°N, 36.07°EBahram — 30.76°N, 57.03°ENaples — 42.63°N, 77.70°WGenesee — 42.72°N, 77.61°WKettle Point — 43.22°N, 82.02°WKoh-e Giru — 34.30°N, 68.13°EGneudna — 24.06°S, 115.21°EGenesee Shale — 42.69°N, 79.05°WTurgenevo — 52.90°N, 36.03°EPļaviņas — 59.89°N, 32.80°EPolotsk — 52.88°N, 26.86°EBluff Head — 22.48°N, 114.28°E

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The named rock units Moythomasia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Moythomasia and its relatives

Devonian

Where Moythomasia and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

219 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 37 sites for Moythomasia, 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

21 references

Each of the 40 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. 9 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Moythomasia

Credit
Oilshale
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Moythomasia durgaringa · amnh:ff:11598

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 itActinopteri through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gross 1950