Acrolepis gigas
No picture of Acrolepis gigas 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 Acrolepis gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrolepisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 6.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307 Mya to 300.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 300.3 Mya.
7 occurrences of Acrolepis gigas 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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 Acrolepis gigas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acrolepis gigas and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Acrolepis gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Sphaerolepis kounoviensis3 sites
- Elonichthys2 sites
- Progyrolepis speciosus2 sites
- Spinarichthys dispersus2 sites
- Watsonichthys sphaerosideritarum2 sites
- Zaborichthys fragmentalis2 sites
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Anthracojulus pictus1 site
- Archimylacridae1 site
- Archimylacris acadica1 site
- Blattodea1 site
- Bohemiclavulus mirabilis1 site
- Boii crassidens1 site
- Dawsonerpeton polydens1 site
- Keraterpeton gigas1 site
- Macromerion1 site
- Macromerion schwartzenbergii1 site
- Oestocephalus vicinum1 site
- Porierpeton1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Acrolepis gigas, 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
2 referencesEach of the 7 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
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No picture of Acrolepis gigas 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 Acrolepis gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acrolepis gigas was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAcrolepis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Frič 1877)