Pycnosteus pauli
No picture of Pycnosteus pauli 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 Pycnosteus pauli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PycnosteusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pycnosteus pauli 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
3 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Pycnosteus pauli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Pycnosteus pauli and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pycnosteus pauli and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Ganosteus artus3 sites
- Vladimirolepis proia3 sites
- Actinolepis tuberculata2 sites
- Asterolepis estonica2 sites
- Byssacanthus dilatatus2 sites
- Dickosteus2 sites
- Glyptolepis2 sites
- Gyroptychius pauli2 sites
- Homostius latus2 sites
- Pycnosteus palaeformis2 sites
- Tartuosteus2 sites
- Tartuosteus giganteus2 sites
- Thursius estonicus2 sites
- Cheiracanthus1 site
- Cheirolepis1 site
- Conchodus1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Dipterus1 site
- Ganosteus stellatus1 site
- Heterosteus ingens1 site
- Heterostius1 site
- Holonema obrutshevi1 site
- Hybosteus1 site
- Nodacosta1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pycnosteus pauli, 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
2 references- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus2
- Devonian psammosteids (Agnatha, Psammosteidae) of the USSR1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pycnosteus pauli 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 Pycnosteus pauli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pycnosteus pauli 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPycnosteus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mark-Kurik 1965