Osteolepidae

No picture of Osteolepidae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Osteolepidae itself, so it was not used. 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 Osteolepidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OsteolepiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
marinePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 111 million years on record.

The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 22 of 33 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 10 of 33 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 33 occurrencesPermian416–411 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences406–401 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences401–397 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences397–392 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences392–387 Mya — about 3 occurrences387–382 Mya — about 13 occurrences382–377 Mya — about 1 occurrence373–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–363 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences363–358 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences344–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–334 Mya — about 2 occurrences334–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–324 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences324–320 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences320–315 Mya — about 2 occurrences315–310 Mya — about 2 occurrences310–305 Mya — about 1 occurrence305–300 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences300–296 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences296–291 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences291–286 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences286–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410.62 Mya298.9 Mya416 Mya272 Mya

33 occurrences of Osteolepidae 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

33 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

14 formations

Aztec Siltstone — 77.01°S, 161.77°EAztec Siltstone — 77.88°S, 159.61°EAztec Siltstone — 77.94°S, 160.43°EAztec Siltstone — 78.16°S, 159.10°EAztec Siltstone — 78.43°S, 158.68°EAztec Siltstone — 78.46°S, 158.75°EAztec Siltstone — 78.47°S, 158.87°EAztec Siltstone — 78.54°S, 158.43°ESt. Louis — 41.32°N, 92.33°WKanawha — 38.00°N, 81.00°WGlencartholm Volcanic Beds — 55.20°N, 3.07°WCatskill — 41.34°N, 77.68°WGullane — 55.98°N, 3.21°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.14°N, 3.09°WLimestone Coal — 55.92°N, 4.33°WBoyd Volcanic Complex — 36.94°S, 149.82°EPosongchong — 27.40°N, 103.80°EHollands Creek Rhyodacite — 36.76°S, 146.07°ECampo Chico — 10.61°N, 72.39°WRed Hill Beds — 40.05°N, 116.04°WHunter Siltstone — 33.75°S, 148.32°E

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The named rock units Osteolepidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Osteolepidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Osteolepidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

237 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Osteolepidae, 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

18 references

Each of the 33 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. 6 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 content0

No picture of Osteolepidae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Osteolepidae itself, so it was not used.

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 Osteolepidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Osteolepidae 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 itOsteolepiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.