Amaltheolepis
No picture of Amaltheolepis 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 Amaltheolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TalivaliidaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 399.5 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Amaltheolepis 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Amaltheolepis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Amaltheolepis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Amaltheolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Acanthodes1 site
- Actinolepis1 site
- Arthrodira1 site
- Balticaspis latvica1 site
- Cheiracanthus1 site
- Cheirolepis1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Ectopacanthus1 site
- Haplacanthus1 site
- Heimenia ensis1 site
- Herasmius granulatus1 site
- Homostius1 site
- Homostius arcticus1 site
- Laliacanthus1 site
- Markacanthus1 site
- Nostolepis1 site
- Orvikuina1 site
- Porolepis1 site
- Pruemolepis1 site
- Ptychodictyon1 site
- Rhadinacanthus1 site
- Schizosteus1 site
- Skamolepis1 site
- Watsonacanthus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Amaltheolepis, 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- Palaeozoogeographical connections of the Devonian vertebrate communities of the Baltica Province. Part I. Eifelian–Givetian1
- Stratigraphic subdivision of the Devonian deposits of Spitsbergen1
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 Amaltheolepis 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 Amaltheolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Amaltheolepis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itTalivaliidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ørvig 1969