Styracopteridae
No picture of Styracopteridae 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 Styracopteridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AmphicentriformesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 72 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
14 occurrences of Styracopteridae 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
14 occurrences- Carboniferous93%
- Permian7%
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
8 formations
- Molignée Formation4
- Ballagan Formation · Inverclyde Group2
- West Lothian Oil Shale Formation · Upper Oil Shale Group2
- Glencartholm Volcanic Beds Formation · Upper Border Group1
- Calciferous Sandstone Series Formation · Cementstone Group1
- Marbre Noir Formation1
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The named rock units Styracopteridae 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.
Styracopteridae and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Styracopteridae and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Benedenius deneensis4 sites
- Fouldenia ischiptera3 sites
- Aetheretmon valentiacum2 sites
- Rhadinichthys2 sites
- Strepheoschema fouldenensis2 sites
- Styracopterus fulcratus2 sites
- Acanthodes nitidus1 site
- Acrolepis ortholepis1 site
- Adelophthalmus perornatus1 site
- Antliodus1 site
- Benedenius soreili1 site
- Canobius1 site
- Canobius elegantulus1 site
- Cheirodopsis geikiei1 site
- Chichia gracilis1 site
- Chondrenchelys problematica1 site
- Cosmoptychius striatus1 site
- Cycloptychius concentricus1 site
- Deltoptychius1 site
- Denaea fournieri1 site
- Dumfregia huxleyi1 site
- Elonichthys pulcherrimus1 site
- Elonichthys serratus1 site
- Fouldenia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Styracopteridae, 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
7 references- Catalogue of the types and illustrated specimens recovered from the ‘black marble’ of Denée, a marine conservation-Lagerstätte from the Mississippian of southern Belgium5
- Styracopterid (Actinopterygii) ontogeny and the multiple origins of post-Hangenberg deep-bodied fishes3
- The early diversification of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): hypotheses, challenges and future prospects2
- Fossil Fishes of Great Britain1
- Actinopterygian fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland1
- A fish fauna from the Late Permian of the Dzungaria Basin1
- The fish fauna of the Cementstones of Foulden, Berwickshire1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Styracopteridae 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 Styracopteridae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Styracopteridae was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itAmphicentriformes through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Moy-Thomas 1937