Rhadinichthyidae

Rhadinichthyidae

Ryan Somma · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
PalaeoniscoideiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 5 of 192 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 184 of 192 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 192 occurrencesPermian374–371 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences371–367 Mya — about 1 occurrence367–364 Mya — about 1 occurrence364–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–357 Mya — about 3 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 5 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 5 occurrences350–347 Mya — about 5 occurrences347–344 Mya — about 8 occurrences344–340 Mya — about 8 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 39 occurrences337–333 Mya — about 17 occurrences333–330 Mya — about 7 occurrences330–327 Mya — about 11 occurrences327–323 Mya — about 28 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 3 occurrences320–316 Mya — about 31 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 4 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 3 occurrences310–306 Mya — about 4 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–296 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences296–293 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences293–289 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya290.1 Mya374 Mya272 Mya

192 occurrences of Rhadinichthyidae on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

192 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

39 formations

Gullane — 56.04°N, 2.83°WGullane — 55.96°N, 3.24°WGullane — 55.88°N, 3.59°WGullane — 55.93°N, 3.24°WHeath — 46.95°N, 108.96°WHeath — 46.95°N, 108.90°WHeath — 46.97°N, 109.04°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.87°N, 3.88°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.85°N, 3.83°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.83°N, 3.79°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 55.84°N, 3.73°WScottish Lower Coal Measures — 56.09°N, 3.22°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.89°N, 3.17°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.93°N, 3.47°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.92°N, 3.55°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.94°N, 3.37°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.99°N, 3.40°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 52.97°N, 3.09°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.13°N, 3.09°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.20°N, 3.21°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.11°N, 3.03°WPennine Lower Coal Measures — 53.17°N, 3.09°WAlbert — 45.88°N, 64.67°WAlbert — 45.94°N, 64.61°WGlencartholm Volcanic Beds — 55.20°N, 3.07°WTyne limestone — 55.11°N, 2.98°WWaaiport — 33.26°S, 23.07°EWaaiport — 33.23°S, 25.13°ELimestone coal — 55.91°N, 3.07°WLimestone coal — 55.89°N, 4.25°WLimestone coal — 55.94°N, 3.01°WCalciferous Sandstone — 56.06°N, 3.23°WCalciferous Sandstone — 56.22°N, 2.70°WCalciferous Sandstone — 55.20°N, 3.07°WManse Burn — 55.93°N, 4.36°WManse Burn — 55.80°N, 4.18°WAnstruther — 56.06°N, 3.42°WRubchan — 52.07°N, 27.74°EEast Kirkton Limestone — 55.90°N, 3.62°WMillstone grit — 53.66°N, 2.08°WGrovesend — 55.93°N, 3.11°WBorov — 52.07°N, 27.74°EAkansaiskaya — 47.47°N, 84.87°ENew Albany Shale — 38.48°N, 85.75°WCockhill Marine Band — 54.17°N, 1.87°WCalciferous Sandstone Series — 55.12°N, 2.98°WChokier — 50.47°N, 4.87°EPathhead — 56.20°N, 2.79°W

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The named rock units Rhadinichthyidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 15 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 21 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhadinichthyidae and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rhadinichthyidae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

339 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 121 sites for Rhadinichthyidae, 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

37 references

Each of the 192 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. 25 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.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Rhadinichthyidae

Credit
Ryan Somma
Licence
CC BY-SA 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhadinichthyidae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPalaeoniscoidei through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1945