Spathicephalus pereger

Spathicephalus pereger

D. Baird & Take · 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
SpathicephalusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At most 16 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 330.3 Mya and 315.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 1 occurrenceCarboniferous331–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–330 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–329 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences323–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences322–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences321–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–320 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences320–319 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences319–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–318 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences318–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–317 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–316 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences316–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences315–315 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences330.8 Mya314.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Spathicephalus pereger 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

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

Point Edward — 46.17°N, 60.27°W

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

Spathicephalus pereger and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Spathicephalus pereger and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Spathicephalus pereger, so there is nothing to compare it with.

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

Media content1

Picture of Spathicephalus pereger

Source
GBIF
Credit
D. Baird & Take
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spathicephalus pereger 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 itSpathicephalus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Baird 1962