Climatiidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ClimatiiformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At least 44 million years on record.
The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 432.9 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
118 occurrences of Climatiidae 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
118 occurrencesThese 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
53 formations
- Shanda Horizon Formation13
- Salairka Horizon Formation10
- Dundee Flagstone Formation · Arbuthnott Group8
- Windmill Limestone Formation7
- Belovo Horizon Formation5
- Yulongsi Formation3
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The named rock units Climatiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Climatiidae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Climatiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
687 taxa- Nostolepis27 sites
- Nostolepis striata12 sites
- Cephalaspis11 sites
- Elasmobranchii9 sites
- Gomphodus9 sites
- Nostolepis gracilis9 sites
- Thelodus parvidens9 sites
- Bairdiohealdites8 sites
- Cheiracanthoides comptus8 sites
- Gypidula8 sites
- Microcheilinella8 sites
- Miraculum8 sites
- Panderodus8 sites
- Acanthodes7 sites
- Atrypa7 sites
- Cheiracanthoides7 sites
- Coeloenellina7 sites
- Howellella7 sites
- Icriodus7 sites
- Pandorinellina7 sites
- Sarcopterygii7 sites
- Bairdia6 sites
- Dipnoi6 sites
- Hanaites6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Climatiidae, 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
41 references- Facies and faunal associations of the Telengitian (Emsian) in its type locality28
- Distribution of vertebrates in the Silurian of Estonia9
- Early Devonian vertebrate microfossils from the Simpson Park Range, Eureka County, Nevada7
- New Wenlock-Pridoli (Silurian) acanthodian fishes from Lithuania5
- Silurian vertebrate assemblages of China5
- Early Frasnian acanthodians from central Iran4
- Revision of Silurian vertebrate biozones and their correlation with the conodont succession3
- Depositional environment, stratigraphy, structure and paleobiology of the Hatchery Creek Group (Early–?Middle Devonian) near Wee Jasper, New South Wales3
- Early Devonian (Emsian) acanthodian faunas of the Western USA3
- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus3
- Chapter 4. Early Devonian fossil fishes sites of the Welsh Borders3
- Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids3
Each of the 118 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. 29 further references are not listed. 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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Picture of Climatiidae
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No 3D scan of Climatiidae 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 itClimatiiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Berg 1940