Aesopichthys erinaceus
No picture of Aesopichthys erinaceus 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 Aesopichthys erinaceus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AesopichthysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Actinopterygii
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 326.9 Mya and 323.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Aesopichthys erinaceus 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
8 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
1 formation
- Heath Formation · Big Snowy Group8
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The named rock units Aesopichthys erinaceus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aesopichthys erinaceus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Aesopichthys erinaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Wendyichthys dicksoni8 sites
- Fubarichthyiformes7 sites
- Harpagofututor volsellorhinus7 sites
- Falcatus falcatus6 sites
- Paratarrasius hibbardi6 sites
- Cyranorhis bergeraci5 sites
- Kalops monophrys4 sites
- Beagiascus pulcherrimus3 sites
- Debeerius ellefseni3 sites
- Discoserra pectinodon3 sites
- Kalops diophrys3 sites
- Lineagruan judithi3 sites
- Lineagruan snowyi3 sites
- Papilionichthys stahlae3 sites
- Wendyichthys lautreci3 sites
- Animalia2 sites
- Archisymplectes rhothon2 sites
- Belantsea montana2 sites
- Boeotiaspis longispinus2 sites
- Carbosesostris megaliphagon2 sites
- Caridosuctor populosum2 sites
- Damocles serratus2 sites
- Hadronector donbairdi2 sites
- Lineagruan2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Aesopichthys erinaceus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 8 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 Aesopichthys erinaceus 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 Aesopichthys erinaceus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aesopichthys erinaceus 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 itAesopichthys through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poplin and Lund 2000