Uraniacanthus curtus
No picture of Uraniacanthus curtus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Uraniacanthus curtus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- UraniacanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At most 27 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Uraniacanthus curtus 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
3 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
- Dundee Flagstone Formation · Arbuthnott-Garvock Group2
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The named rock units Uraniacanthus curtus 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.
Uraniacanthus curtus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Uraniacanthus curtus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Ischnacanthus gracilis2 sites
- Mesacanthus mitchelli2 sites
- Archidesmus macnicoli1 site
- Brachyacanthus1 site
- Cephalaspis1 site
- Cephalaspis lyelli1 site
- Climatius reticulatus1 site
- Euthacanthus gracilis1 site
- Euthacanthus macnicoli1 site
- Parexus recurvus1 site
- Pterygotus1 site
- Vernicomacanthus uncinatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Uraniacanthus curtus, 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 3 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
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No picture of Uraniacanthus curtus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Uraniacanthus curtus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itUraniacanthus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Powrie 1870