Pachyosteomorphi

Pachyosteomorphi is an extinct clade of arthrodire placoderms within the Eubrachythoraci, armored fish most diverse during the Devonian. Most are considered to be pelagic long-distance swimmers, leading to their widespread distribution beginning from at least the Middle Devonian period.

Pachyosteomorphi

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
BrachythoraciPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 57 of 57 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 57 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences395–393 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 3 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 6 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 3 occurrences385–383 Mya — about 2 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 8 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 4 occurrences381–379 Mya — about 4 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 3 occurrences378–376 Mya — about 3 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 3 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 2 occurrences374–372 Mya — about 2 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences361–359 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393.47 Mya365.2 Mya400.3 Mya358 Mya

57 occurrences of Pachyosteomorphi 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

57 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

30 formations

Gogo — 18.30°S, 126.50°EGogo — 18.58°S, 125.90°EElm Point — 50.77°N, 98.22°WElm Point — 51.43°N, 98.78°WElm Point — 51.47°N, 98.80°WOhio Shale — 41.41°N, 82.60°WOhio Shale — 41.45°N, 81.77°WGauja — 58.01°N, 25.38°EBurtnieki — 58.10°N, 25.55°ENarva — 59.38°N, 28.19°EAruküla — 59.37°N, 25.08°EAruküla — 57.55°N, 25.28°ELan' — 52.16°N, 27.30°EBahram — 30.76°N, 57.03°EBahram — 30.53°N, 57.30°ERockport Quarry Limestone — 45.20°N, 83.39°WJiucheng — 25.54°N, 102.43°EPļaviņas — 59.89°N, 32.80°ETsilemskaya — 65.51°N, 49.34°EEscuminac — 48.11°N, 66.40°WLost Burro — 36.75°N, 117.52°WPolotsk — 52.88°N, 26.86°EYidade — 24.22°N, 103.10°ETērvete — 56.46°N, 23.25°EAlpena — 45.07°N, 83.41°WFour Mile Dam — 45.08°N, 83.43°WAntrim Shale — 45.00°N, 83.46°WDelaware Limestone — 40.30°N, 83.07°WKettle Point — 43.22°N, 82.02°W

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The named rock units Pachyosteomorphi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachyosteomorphi and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pachyosteomorphi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

395 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Pachyosteomorphi, 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

31 references

Each of the 57 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. 19 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 content1

Picture of Pachyosteomorphi

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

No 3D scan of Pachyosteomorphi 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.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Stensiö 1944