Strunius

Strunius is an extinct genus of lobe-finned fish from the Late Devonian period of Germany and Latvia. The genus contains two named species, S. rolandi and S. walteri, as well as a third unnamed species from the Lode Quarry of Latvia.

Strunius

Ciudad Real, M., Mondéjar-Fernández, J., Vidal, D., & Botella, H. · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
OnychodontiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 382.31 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 383.4 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 7 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–370 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences370–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–369 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences369–368 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences368–367 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences367–366 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences366–365 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences365–364 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences364–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–363 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences363–362 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences362–361 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences361–360 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences360–359 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences359–358 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382.31 Mya365.2 Mya383.9 Mya358.4 Mya

7 occurrences of Strunius 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

7 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

5 formations

Bergisch Gladbach — 50.97°N, 7.15°EKovanshchina — 54.13°N, 36.56°EGauja — 58.01°N, 25.38°EDankov-Lebedyan Beds — 52.97°N, 36.07°EStvizha — 52.07°N, 27.74°E

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The named rock units Strunius 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.

Strunius and its relatives

Devonian

Where Strunius and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Strunius, 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

5 references

Each of the 7 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 content2

Picture of Strunius

Credit
Ciudad Real, M., Mondéjar-Fernández, J., Vidal, D., & Botella, H.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Strunius rolandi · nrm:P00006280

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itOnychodontiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jessen 1966