Plourdosteus magnus
No picture of Plourdosteus magnus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plourdosteus magnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PlourdosteusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Plourdosteus magnus 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.
Plourdosteus magnus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Plourdosteus magnus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Asterolepis1 site
- Asterolepis alta1 site
- Asterolepis maxima1 site
- Bothriolepis taylori1 site
- Conchodus1 site
- Cosmacanthus1 site
- Gyrolepis (Holoptychius) giganteus1 site
- Heddleichthys dalgleisiensis1 site
- Holoptychius decoratus1 site
- Holoptychius nobilissimus1 site
- Psammolepis1 site
- Psammosteidae1 site
- Psammosteus taylori1 site
- Tetrapodomorpha1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Plourdosteus magnus, 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
Media content0
No picture of Plourdosteus magnus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Plourdosteus magnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Plourdosteus magnus 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 itPlourdosteus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1895