Psammolepis abavica
No picture of Psammolepis abavica 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 Psammolepis abavica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PsammolepisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 1.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 383.4 Mya and 382.31 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Psammolepis abavica 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
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The named rock units Psammolepis abavica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Psammolepis abavica and its relatives
DevonianWhere Psammolepis abavica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Acanthodes1 site
- Actinolepis magna1 site
- Asterolepis essica1 site
- Byssacanthus1 site
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus1 site
- Cheirolepis gaugeri1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Dipnoi1 site
- Ganosteus stellatus1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Hamodus1 site
- Hybosteus mirabilis1 site
- Laccognathus1 site
- Livosteus grandis1 site
- Microbrachius dicki1 site
- Moythomasia1 site
- Panderichthys1 site
- Plourdosteus panderi1 site
- Psammosteus1 site
- Watsonosteus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Psammolepis abavica, 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 Psammolepis abavica 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 Psammolepis abavica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Psammolepis abavica 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 itPsammolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mark-Kurik 1965