Elmosteus lundarensis

No picture of Elmosteus lundarensis 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 Elmosteus lundarensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ElmosteusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira

Time the record covers

At most 4.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 390.5 Mya and 385.9 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 occurrencesDevonian391–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391 Mya385.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Elmosteus lundarensis 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

2 formations

Elm Point — 50.77°N, 98.22°WElm Point — 51.43°N, 98.78°WElm Point — 51.47°N, 98.80°WWinnipegosis — 51.08°N, 98.78°W

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

Elmosteus lundarensis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Elmosteus lundarensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from any of those sites.

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Elmosteus lundarensis, and this reads all of them.

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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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No picture of Elmosteus lundarensis 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 Elmosteus lundarensis, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hanke et al. 1996)