Schizosteus heterolepis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SchizosteusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 5.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Schizosteus heterolepis 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 Schizosteus heterolepis 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.
Schizosteus heterolepis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Schizosteus heterolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Psammolepis toriensis2 sites
- Tartuosteus2 sites
- Actinolepis tuberculata1 site
- Aestiaspis viitaensis1 site
- Byssacanthus dilatatus1 site
- Cephalaspidida1 site
- Cheirolepis gracilis1 site
- Dipnoi1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Heterostraci1 site
- Homostius1 site
- Hybosteus1 site
- Laliacanthus singularis1 site
- Osteolepididae1 site
- Porolepis1 site
- Protopteraspididae1 site
- Psammolepis1 site
- Psammosteidae1 site
- Psammosteus1 site
- Pycnosteus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Schizosteus heterolepis, 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- Upper Silurian and Devonian heterostracan pteraspidomorphs (Vertebrata) from Severnaya Zemlya (Russia): a preliminary report with biogeographical and biostratigraphical implications1
- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus1
- 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 Schizosteus heterolepis 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 Schizosteus heterolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Schizosteus heterolepis 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 itSchizosteus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Praeobrazhensky 1911