Phymosteus liui
No picture of Phymosteus liui was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Phymosteus liui 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. Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Phymosteus liui 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
1 formation
- Leikutai Formation · Wutong Group1
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The named rock units Phymosteus liui has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phymosteus liui and its relatives
DevonianWhere Phymosteus liui and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Archaeozonotriletes echinatus1 site
- Cymbosporites lasius1 site
- Cymbosporites parvibabasilaris1 site
- Cymbosporites scallellus1 site
- Jiangxilepis longibrachius1 site
- Jiangxilepis sinensis1 site
- Lophozonotriletes crassatus1 site
- Lophozonotriletes cristifer1 site
- Lophozonotriletes curvatus1 site
- Sarcopterygii1 site
- Sinolepis macrocephala1 site
- Sinolepis wutungensis1 site
- Spelaeotriletes lepidophytus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Phymosteus liui, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Phymosteus liui was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Phymosteus liui 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.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
No 3D scan of Phymosteus liui 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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.