Sinolepis macrocephala

No picture of Sinolepis macrocephala 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 Sinolepis macrocephala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SinolepisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi

Time the record covers

At most 14 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Devonian — about 1 of 1 occurrenceDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 1 occurrence372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences371–371 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences370–370 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–368 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences367–367 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–366 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–365 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–364 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–362 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–361 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–360 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences359–359 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences372.6 Mya358.4 Mya

1 occurrence of Sinolepis macrocephala 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

1 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

1 formation

Leikutai — 34.00°N, 118.00°E

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

Sinolepis macrocephala and its relatives

Devonian

Where Sinolepis macrocephala and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Sinolepis macrocephala, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 Sinolepis macrocephala 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 Sinolepis macrocephala, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Sinolepis macrocephala 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 itSinolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liu and Pan 1958