Paleophycus sp.

No picture of Paleophycus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paleophycus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 509.7 Mya to 432.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 515.3 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 1 of 4 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 2 of 4 occurrencesSilurian517–514 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences514–511 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences511–508 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–453 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences453–450 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences450–446 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences446–443 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences443–440 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences440–437 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences437–434 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences434–431 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences431–428 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences428–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences509.7 Mya432.9 Mya517 Mya425 Mya

4 occurrences of Paleophycus sp. on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

4 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

4 formations

Forteau — 51.56°N, 56.75°WAcacus Sandstone — 24.97°N, 10.18°EHerkimer — 43.12°N, 75.60°WBobcaygeon — 44.58°N, 79.09°W

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The named rock units Paleophycus sp. has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Paleophycus sp. and its relatives

Silurian

Where Paleophycus sp. and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

102 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Paleophycus sp., 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

4 references

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Paleophycus sp. was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Paleophycus sp. firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

No 3D scan of Paleophycus sp. 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.