Watsonichthys

No picture of Watsonichthys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Watsonichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcrolepidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 55 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 346.7 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 37 of 42 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 5 of 42 occurrencesPermian348–346 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 2 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 3 occurrences334–332 Mya — about 4 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 3 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 2 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences304–301 Mya — about 6 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 15 occurrences290–287 Mya — about 1 occurrence287–285 Mya — about 1 occurrence285–282 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences274–271 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330.3 Mya274.4 Mya348 Mya265 Mya

42 occurrences of Watsonichthys 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

42 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

14 formations

Slaný — 49.84°N, 13.31°ESlaný — 50.21°N, 14.10°ESlaný — 50.33°N, 14.87°ESlaný — 50.26°N, 14.08°ESlaný — 50.29°N, 14.85°ESlaný — 50.24°N, 14.00°ESlaný — 50.35°N, 14.70°ESlaný — 50.26°N, 14.03°ESlaný — 50.33°N, 14.75°ESlaný — 50.56°N, 15.11°EWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.81°N, 3.59°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.89°N, 3.47°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.83°N, 3.65°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.88°N, 3.17°WLower Limestone — 56.31°N, 2.87°WLower Limestone — 55.90°N, 3.14°WWhitehill — 31.45°S, 19.56°EWhitehill — 30.95°S, 19.43°EGanigobis — 25.88°S, 18.00°ESyřenov — 50.44°N, 15.13°EPathhead — 56.20°N, 2.79°WEast Kirkton Limestone — 55.90°N, 3.62°WLimestone Coal — 55.88°N, 3.15°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.88°N, 3.52°WUpper limestone — 55.93°N, 3.11°WWest Lothian Oil Shale ? — 55.85°N, 3.57°WBaytugan — 56.01°N, 52.71°EManse Burn — 55.92°N, 4.33°W

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The named rock units Watsonichthys 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.

Watsonichthys and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Watsonichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 40 sites for Watsonichthys, 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

10 references

Each of the 42 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 content1

CT scan

Licence
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Commercial use
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Specimen
Watsonichthys pectinatus · nhmuk:pv p:57620

No picture of Watsonichthys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Watsonichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAcrolepidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Aldinger 1937