Namaichthys

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrolepidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 298.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 303.7 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 8 occurrencesPermian305–303 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–298 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences282–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences277–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298.9 Mya259.857 Mya305 Mya253 Mya

8 occurrences of Namaichthys on record. 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

8 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

3 formations

Ganigobis — 25.88°S, 18.00°EKookfontein — 33.17°S, 22.54°ELower Dwyka Shales — 28.69°S, 17.56°E

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The named rock units Namaichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

6 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Namaichthys, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

5 references

Each of the 8 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

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

No 3D scan of Namaichthys 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAcrolepidae through timeThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gürich 1923