Actinolepis magna
No picture of Actinolepis magna was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Actinolepis magna 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 Actinolepis magna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinolepisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At least 2.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 385.9 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
2 occurrences of Actinolepis magna 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
2 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
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The named rock units Actinolepis magna has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Actinolepis magna and its relatives
DevonianWhere Actinolepis magna and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus2 sites
- Glyptolepis2 sites
- Hamodus2 sites
- Acanthodes1 site
- Acanthodidae1 site
- Asterolepis1 site
- Asterolepis dellei1 site
- Asterolepis essica1 site
- Byssacanthus1 site
- Cheiracanthus1 site
- Cheiracanthus longicostatus1 site
- Cheirolepis1 site
- Cheirolepis gaugeri1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Coccosteus markae1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Diplacanthus carinatus1 site
- Dipnoi1 site
- Elasmobranchii1 site
- Ganosteus stellatus1 site
- Gyroptychius elgae1 site
- Heterosteus ingens1 site
- Holonema harmae1 site
- Holoptychiidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Actinolepis magna, 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
2 references- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates1
- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus1
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. 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 Actinolepis magna was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Actinolepis magna 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 Actinolepis magna, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Actinolepis magna 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.
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What may have been alongside itActinolepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Mark-Kurik 1973