Chelyophorus

Searched as Chelyophorus verneuil. The Paleobiology Database treats Chelyophorus as the accepted name.

No picture of Chelyophorus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chelyophorus 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 Chelyophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtyctodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 368.5 Mya and 365.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Chelyophorus 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

1 occurrences

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

Turgenevo — 52.90°N, 36.03°E

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The named rock units Chelyophorus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chelyophorus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Chelyophorus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

15 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Chelyophorus, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Chelyophorus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Chelyophorus 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 Chelyophorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Chelyophorus 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 itPtyctodontidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1845