Phlyctaeniidae

Phlyctaeniidae is an extinct family of placoderm arthrodire fishes that lived during the Devonian period, mainly in Norway and North America.

Phlyctaeniidae

Entelognathus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
PhlyctaeniiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira

Time the record covers

At least 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 14 of 14 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 14 occurrences414–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 1 occurrence397–395 Mya — about 1 occurrence395–393 Mya — about 1 occurrence393–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences373–371 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences369–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences362–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393.47 Mya372.15 Mya414 Mya358 Mya

14 occurrences of Phlyctaeniidae 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

14 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

6 formations

Taemas — 34.96°S, 148.81°ETaemas — 35.11°S, 148.67°EAztec Siltstone — 77.88°S, 159.61°EAztec Siltstone — 78.16°S, 159.10°EWitpoort — 33.32°S, 26.54°EWood Bay — 78.85°N, 15.45°EKush Yeilagh — 36.85°N, 55.35°EHaikou — 25.52°N, 102.43°E

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The named rock units Phlyctaeniidae 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.

Phlyctaeniidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Phlyctaeniidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

128 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Phlyctaeniidae, 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

11 references

Each of the 14 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 Phlyctaeniidae

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

No 3D scan of Phlyctaeniidae 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 itPhlyctaeniiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Fowler 1947