Rhinopteraspis crouchi

Rhinopteraspis crouchi

Christian Franke · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
RhinopteraspisPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At least 2.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 416.8 Mya to 414.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 413.02 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonian420–420 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences416.8 Mya414.6 Mya420.1 Mya412.5 Mya

3 occurrences of Rhinopteraspis crouchi 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

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

3 formations

Bunte Ebbe — 50.71°N, 6.27°EFreshwater West — 51.83°N, 3.00°WBois d'Ausse — 50.59°N, 5.97°E

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

Rhinopteraspis crouchi and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhinopteraspis crouchi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

11 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhinopteraspis crouchi, 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

3 references

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. 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 Rhinopteraspis crouchi

Source
GBIF
Credit
Christian Franke
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Rhinopteraspis crouchi 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 itRhinopteraspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lankester 1868