Palaeoniscum freieslebeni

Palaeoniscum freieslebeni

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
PalaeoniscumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 300.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 301.4 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 27 occurrencesPermian — about 26 of 27 occurrencesPermian302–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences271–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–261 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences261–260 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 7 occurrences258–256 Mya — about 7 occurrences256–255 Mya — about 7 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 3 occurrences300.9 Mya259.857 Mya302.3 Mya253.2 Mya

27 occurrences of Palaeoniscum freieslebeni on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

27 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

5 formations

Raisby — 54.69°N, 1.53°WRaisby — 54.63°N, 1.63°WRaisby — 54.85°N, 1.47°WRaisby — 55.05°N, 1.44°WRaisby — 54.62°N, 1.68°WKupferschiefer — 52.23°N, 7.96°EGomaniibrik — 37.31°N, 43.54°E'First' — 55.03°N, 48.89°EPuertollano basin — 38.67°N, 4.11°W

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The named rock units Palaeoniscum freieslebeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeoniscum freieslebeni and its relatives

Permian

Where Palaeoniscum freieslebeni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

48 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Palaeoniscum freieslebeni, 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

7 references

Each of the 27 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. 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 Palaeoniscum freieslebeni

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Palaeoniscum freieslebeni 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 itPalaeoniscum through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blainville 1818