Poraspis thomasi

Poraspis thomasi

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
PoraspisPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At most 6.1 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences398–398 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–395 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences400 Mya393 Mya

1 occurrence of Poraspis thomasi 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

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

Lost Burro — 36.30°N, 116.96°W

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The named rock units Poraspis thomasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Poraspis thomasi and its relatives

Devonian

Where Poraspis thomasi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

7 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Poraspis thomasi, 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 reference

Each 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Poraspis thomasi

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Elliott and Petriello 2011