Porolepidiformes
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PorolepidimorphaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 51 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
129 occurrences of Porolepidiformes 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
129 occurrences- Devonian99%
- Carboniferousunder 1%
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
55 formations
- Burtnieki Formation6
- Lybster Flagstone Formation · Caithness Flagstone Group6
- Catskill Formation5
- Parting Formation5
- Evieux Formation · Condroz Group4
- Chemung Formation3
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The named rock units Porolepidiformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 23 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Porolepidiformes and its relatives
DevonianWhere Porolepidiformes and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
594 taxa- Glyptolepis31 sites
- Dipnoi14 sites
- Holoptychius13 sites
- Cheirolepis12 sites
- Holoptychiidae12 sites
- Byssacanthus dilatatus11 sites
- Orvikuina10 sites
- Acanthodes9 sites
- Actinolepis tuberculata9 sites
- Bothriolepis9 sites
- Onychodus9 sites
- Osteolepididae9 sites
- Acanthodii8 sites
- Asterolepis8 sites
- Asterolepis estonica8 sites
- Cephalaspidida8 sites
- Coccosteus cuspidatus8 sites
- Gyrolepis (Holoptychius) giganteus8 sites
- Holonema8 sites
- Holoptychius nobilissimus8 sites
- Homostius latus8 sites
- Devononchus concinnus7 sites
- Schizosteus striatus7 sites
- Cheiracanthus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 87 sites for Porolepidiformes, 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
58 references- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus22
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates8
- Fossil Fishes of Great Britain7
- Late Devonian fossil fishes sites of Scotland6
- Late Devonian fresh-water fishes from the western United States5
- On some new and little known Paleozoic vertebrates4
- A new species of the Devonian actinopterygian fish Moythomasia from Belarus3
- New tetrapodomorph vertebrates from the Yam-Tesovo locality (Amata Regional Stage, Middle–Upper Devonian) of Leningrad Region, northwestern Russia3
- Psammosteiforms (Agnatha, Heterostraci) from the Lower Frasnian of the Mikhailovskii Mine, Kursk Region, Russia3
- Sedimentology, fauna, and taphonomy of the Pavâri site, Late Devonian of Latvia3
- Comparison of the Escuminac Formation ichthyofauna with other late Givetian/early Frasnian ichthyofaunas3
- On the Paleozoic series of Bear Island, especially on the Heclahook system3
Each of the 129 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. 46 further references are not listed. 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.
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No picture of Porolepidiformes 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 Porolepidiformes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Porolepidiformes 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPorolepidimorpha through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jarvik 1942)