Acrolepis hortonensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcrolepisPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 346.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acrolepis hortonensis 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
2 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
2 formations
- Horton Bluff Formation · Horton Group1
- Albert Formation · Horton Group1
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The named rock units Acrolepis hortonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acrolepis hortonensis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Acrolepis hortonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Elonichthys2 sites
- Rhadinichthys2 sites
- Amblypterus1 site
- Elonichthys brownii1 site
- Elonichthys ellsi1 site
- Lambeia pectinatus1 site
- Palaeoniscum1 site
- Rhadinichthys alberti1 site
- Rhadinichthys cairnsii1 site
- Rhadinichthys canobiensis1 site
- Sphyragnathus tyche1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acrolepis hortonensis, 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 references- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates1
- Catalogue of Canadian fossil fishes1
Each of the 2 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 Acrolepis hortonensis 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 Acrolepis hortonensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acrolepis hortonensis 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. Dawson 1868