Plourdosteus

Plourdosteus is an extinct genus of placoderm arthrodire which was relatively widespread in Euramerica during the Givetian to Frasnian ages of the Devonian. It was a small placoderm, with P. canadensis specimen MNHM 2-177 measuring 37.5 cm (14.8 in) long.

Plourdosteus

DiBgd · 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
PanxiosteidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira

Time the record covers

At least 4.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 383.4 Mya to 379 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 17 of 17 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 3 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 3 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences377–377 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences376–376 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–374 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–373 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences383.4 Mya379 Mya388.4 Mya371.6 Mya

17 occurrences of Plourdosteus 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

17 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

8 formations

Gauja — 58.01°N, 25.38°ELan' — 52.16°N, 27.30°EPļaviņas — 59.89°N, 32.80°EEscuminac — 48.11°N, 66.40°WBurtnieki — 58.10°N, 25.55°EPolotsk — 52.88°N, 26.86°ETsilemskaya — 65.51°N, 49.34°EYam-Tesovo — 58.89°N, 30.56°E

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The named rock units Plourdosteus 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.

Plourdosteus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Plourdosteus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Plourdosteus, 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

10 references

Each of the 17 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 Plourdosteus

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

No 3D scan of Plourdosteus 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPanxiosteidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Orvig 1951