Daphnaechelus
No picture of Daphnaechelus 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 Daphnaechelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinopterygiiPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Actinopterygii
Time the record covers
At most 8.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 290.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Daphnaechelus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
- San Gregorio Formation1
- Rio do Sol Formation · Itararé Group1
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The named rock units Daphnaechelus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Daphnaechelus and its relatives
PermianWhere Daphnaechelus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Irajapintoseidon uruguayensis2 sites
- Carbonilepis uruguayensis1 site
- Coccocephalus tessellatus1 site
- Elonichthys macropercularis1 site
- Gondwanichthys maximus1 site
- Itararichthys microphthalmus1 site
- Mesonichthys antipodeus1 site
- Monesedeiphus depressus1 site
- Rhadinichthys rioniger1 site
- Roslerichthys riomafrensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Daphnaechelus, 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- Distribution of Permian Fishes of Brazil and their palaeoenvironments1
- Decouverte d'une ichthyofaune dans le Carbonifere superiuer d'Uruguay. Rappots avec les faunes ichthyologiques contemporaines des autres regions du Gondwana1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Daphnaechelus 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 Daphnaechelus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Daphnaechelus 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 itActinopterygii through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Beltan 1977