Thyestes verrucosus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- ThyestesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Thyestes verrucosus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
5 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Thyestes verrucosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thyestes verrucosus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Thyestes verrucosus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
26 taxa- Ctenognathodus murchisoni5 sites
- Oeselia5 sites
- Oulodus excavatus5 sites
- Oulodus siluricus5 sites
- Ozarkodina bohemica5 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens5 sites
- Paralogania martinssoni5 sites
- Pterygolepis nitida5 sites
- Rytidolepis quenstedtii5 sites
- Thelodus laevis5 sites
- Wurmiella excavata5 sites
- Ctenognathodus4 sites
- Rhyncholepis parvula4 sites
- Ozarkodina snajdri3 sites
- Saaremaaspis mickwitzi3 sites
- Schidiosteus mustelensis3 sites
- Tremataspis milleri3 sites
- Tremataspis schmidti3 sites
- Kockelella2 sites
- Meelaidaspis gennadii2 sites
- Oeselaspis pustulata2 sites
- Rhyncholepis butriangula2 sites
- Kockelella ? spp.1 site
- Ozarkodina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Thyestes verrucosus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 5 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Thyestes verrucosus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itThyestes through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eichwald 1854)