Discordichthys spinifer
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DiscordichthysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Actinopterygii
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 266.9 Mya and 259.857 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
7 occurrences of Discordichthys spinifer 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
7 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Discordichthys spinifer has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Discordichthys spinifer and its relatives
PermianWhere Discordichthys spinifer and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Kargalichthys efremovi5 sites
- Kichkassia furcae5 sites
- Platysomus biarmicus5 sites
- Samarichthys luxus5 sites
- Uranichthys pretoriensis5 sites
- Varialepis bergi5 sites
- Burguklia minichorum4 sites
- Lissodus4 sites
- Paleodarwinula4 sites
- Polyacrodus4 sites
- Prasuchonella4 sites
- Anomodontia3 sites
- Archegosauroidea3 sites
- Bolosauria3 sites
- Leptoropha3 sites
- Neoselachii3 sites
- Palaeomutela3 sites
- Palaeomutela wohrmani3 sites
- Prilukiella3 sites
- Sphenacanthidae3 sites
- Acrolepis macroderma2 sites
- Acropholis2 sites
- Dinocephalia2 sites
- Palaeostrugia rhombifera2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Discordichthys spinifer, 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
3 references- A new species of Burguklia (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from the Middle Permian of the Volga Region (European Russia)4
- Type and reference sections of the Middle and Upper Permian of the Volga and Kama River Regions: A Field Guidebook of XVIII International Congress on Carboniferous and Permian2
- Late Permian Discordichthyiformes (Osteichthyes) from European Russia1
Each of the 7 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
Media content0
No picture of Discordichthys spinifer was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Discordichthys spinifer, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDiscordichthys through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Minich 1998