Paramblypterus

Paramblypterus is an extinct genus of Paleozoic bony fish. This taxon would often fall under predation from Paleozoic tetrapods such as Sclerocephalus

Paramblypterus

H. Zell · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
ParamblypteriformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Actinopterygii

Time the record covers

At least 32 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 6 of 67 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 61 of 67 occurrencesPermian316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences303–301 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 4 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 8 occurrences298–296 Mya — about 12 occurrences296–294 Mya — about 12 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 10 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 8 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 5 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 1 occurrence288–286 Mya — about 1 occurrence286–284 Mya — about 1 occurrence284–283 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–268 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307 Mya274.4 Mya316 Mya266 Mya

67 occurrences of Paramblypterus 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

67 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

18 formations

Vrchlabi — 50.57°N, 15.39°EVrchlabi — 50.62°N, 15.60°EVrchlabi — 50.60°N, 15.34°EProsečné — 50.62°N, 15.32°EProsečné — 50.55°N, 15.63°EProsečné — 50.57°N, 15.48°EProsečné — 50.57°N, 15.62°EProsečné — 50.53°N, 15.38°EVrchlabí — 49.40°N, 16.14°EVrchlabí — 50.63°N, 15.61°EVrchlabí — 50.62°N, 15.37°EBroumov — 50.64°N, 16.26°EBroumov — 50.57°N, 16.38°EBroumov — 50.32°N, 16.32°EMesenheim — 49.74°N, 7.88°EMesenheim — 49.77°N, 7.70°EMesenheim — 49.68°N, 7.57°EMesenheim — 49.52°N, 7.31°EIgornay — 47.05°N, 4.38°ELetovice — 49.57°N, 16.61°ELetovice — 49.45°N, 16.60°EČeský Brod — 50.03°N, 15.20°EProsečné — 50.57°N, 15.72°ELower Rotliegendes — 50.58°N, 15.41°EProsecne — 50.56°N, 15.66°EBelebey — 55.70°N, 51.74°EPuertollano basin — 38.68°N, 4.12°WBourran — 44.56°N, 2.25°EGreat Seams — 46.69°N, 4.37°EMolloy — 46.99°N, 4.46°EBaytugan — 56.01°N, 52.71°EMeisenheim — 49.71°N, 7.60°E

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The named rock units Paramblypterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Paramblypterus and its relatives

Permian

Where Paramblypterus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

164 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Paramblypterus, 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 67 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 content1

Picture of Paramblypterus

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H. Zell
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Paramblypterus 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.

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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What may have been alongside itParamblypteriformes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Blot 1966