Pterygotus anglicus

No picture of Pterygotus anglicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pterygotus anglicus itself, so it was not used. 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 Pterygotus anglicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterygotusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Eurypterida
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Eurypterida
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Eurypterida
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Eurypterida

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 399.5 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 6 occurrencesDevonian — about 6 of 6 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.02 Mya – 410.62 Mya420.1 Mya399 Mya

6 occurrences of Pterygotus anglicus 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

6 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

5 formations

Dundee Flagstone — 57.00°N, 4.00°WDalhousie Shale — 48.07°N, 66.37°WDalhousie — 48.06°N, 66.36°WCampbellton — 47.99°N, 66.71°WOld Red Sandstone — 51.86°N, 2.73°W

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

Pterygotus anglicus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Pterygotus anglicus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Pterygotus anglicus, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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 content0

No picture of Pterygotus anglicus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pterygotus anglicus itself, so it was not used.

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 Pterygotus anglicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pterygotus anglicus 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 itPterygotus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1844