Youngolepis praecursor
No picture of Youngolepis praecursor was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Youngolepis praecursor itself, so it was not used. 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 Youngolepis praecursor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- YoungolepisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Youngolepis praecursor 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Youngolepis praecursor has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Youngolepis praecursor and its relatives
DevonianWhere Youngolepis praecursor and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
61 taxa- Howittia wangi2 sites
- Laxaspis yulongssus2 sites
- Zhanjilepis aspratilis2 sites
- ? Ohiolepis xitunensis1 site
- Achoania jarvikii1 site
- Asiacanthus kaoi1 site
- Asiacanthus suni1 site
- Changolepis tricuspidus1 site
- Chuchinolepis1 site
- Chuchinolepis dongmoensis1 site
- Chuchinolepis gracilis1 site
- Chuchinolepis qujingensis1 site
- Chuchinolepis robusta1 site
- Chuchinolepis sulcata1 site
- Cyclodiscaspis ctenus1 site
- Diabolepis speratus1 site
- Diandongpetalichthys liaojiaoshanensis1 site
- Diploholcaspis1 site
- Eugaleaspis changi1 site
- Eugaleaspis lianhuashanensis1 site
- Gavinaspis convergens1 site
- Gualepis elegans1 site
- Heteroyunnanolepis qujingensis1 site
- Hyperaspis acclivis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Youngolepis praecursor, 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
3 references- Siluro-Devonian vertebrate biostratigraphy and biogeography of China1
- Les vertébrés (Placodermi, Galeaspida) du Dévonien inférieur de la coupe de Lung Cô-Mia Lé, province de Hà Giang, Viêt Nam, avec des données complémentaires sur les gisements à vertébrés du Dévonien du Bac Bo oriental1
- Les vertebres du Devonien inferieur du Bac Bo oriental (provinces de Bac Thai et Lang Son, Viet Nam1
Each 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. 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 content0
No picture of Youngolepis praecursor was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Youngolepis praecursor itself, so it was not used.
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 Youngolepis praecursor, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Youngolepis praecursor 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itYoungolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Chang and Yu 1981