Rhadinichthys

Rhadinichthys is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish. It is known from several species that lived in the Late Devonian epoch, the Carboniferous period and the Cisuralian epoch in what is now Europe, South Africa, and North and South America. Some isolated scales from the Cisuralian of Europe were also referred to this genus.

Rhadinichthys

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhadinichthyidaePBDB
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 283.3 Mya.

Devonian — about 5 of 158 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 151 of 158 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 158 occurrencesPermian374–371 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences371–368 Mya — about 1 occurrence368–365 Mya — about 1 occurrence365–362 Mya — about 1 occurrence362–359 Mya — about 1 occurrence359–355 Mya — about 4 occurrences355–352 Mya — about 4 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 3 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 4 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 7 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 7 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 37 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 17 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 6 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 8 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 6 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 3 occurrences322–318 Mya — about 5 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 28 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 3 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 3 occurrences309–306 Mya — about 3 occurrences306–303 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 1 occurrence300–297 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–288 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences288–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358.86 Mya290.1 Mya374 Mya282 Mya

158 occurrences of Rhadinichthys 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

158 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

36 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°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°WLimestone 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°WAnstruther — 56.06°N, 3.42°WRubchan — 52.07°N, 27.74°EHeath — 46.95°N, 108.96°WManse Burn — 55.93°N, 4.36°WManse Burn — 55.80°N, 4.18°WEast 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°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°WRocky Brook ? — 49.17°N, 57.43°WHorton Bluff — 45.11°N, 64.22°W

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The named rock units Rhadinichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhadinichthys and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Rhadinichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

265 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 104 sites for Rhadinichthys, 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

32 references

Each of the 158 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. 20 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 Rhadinichthys

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Oilshale
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CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhadinichthys 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhadinichthyidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1877