Torosteus tuberculatus
No picture of Torosteus tuberculatus 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 Torosteus tuberculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TorosteusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 379 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Torosteus tuberculatus 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- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Torosteus tuberculatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Torosteus tuberculatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Torosteus tuberculatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Bothriolepis1 site
- Bruntonichthys multidens1 site
- Bullerichthys fascidens1 site
- Camuropiscis concinnus1 site
- Camuropiscis laidlawi1 site
- Coccosteus1 site
- Eastmanosteus calliaspis1 site
- Fallacosteus turneri1 site
- Harrytoombsia elegans1 site
- Holonema westolli1 site
- Incisoscutum ritchiei1 site
- Kendrickichthys cavernosus1 site
- Kimberia bispicatus1 site
- Kimberia whybrowi1 site
- Latocamurus coulthardi1 site
- Mcnamaraspis kaprios1 site
- Pillararhynchus longi1 site
- Pinguosteus thulborni1 site
- Robinsondipterus longi1 site
- Rolfosteus canningensis1 site
- Simosteus tuberculatus1 site
- Torosteus pulchellus1 site
- Tubonasus lennardensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Torosteus tuberculatus, 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 referenceEach 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 Torosteus tuberculatus 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 Torosteus tuberculatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Torosteus tuberculatus 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 itTorosteus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gardiner and Miles 1990