Devonobius delta

Devonobius is an extinct genus of Devonian centipedes from the Panther Mountain Formation of New York, and the only member of the order Devonobiomorpha, and the family Devonobiidae. The genus contains a single species, Devonobius delta, known from at least thirty specimens from the aforementioned location in New York.

Devonobius delta

Joanna M. Wolfe, Allison C. Daley, David A. Legg, Gregory D. Edgecombe · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DevonobiusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthropoda

Time the record covers

At most 5.7 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesDevonian388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388.4 Mya381.8 Mya

4 occurrences of Devonobius delta 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

4 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

Panther Mountain — 42.43°N, 74.43°W

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

Devonobius delta and its relatives

Devonian

Where Devonobius delta and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

22 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Devonobius delta, 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 4 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 content1

Picture of Devonobius delta

Credit
Joanna M. Wolfe, Allison C. Daley, David A. Legg, Gregory D. Edgecombe
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Devonobius delta was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itDevonobius through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Shear and Bonamo 1988