Elonichthys portlocki
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElonichthysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 16 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 330.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 323.4 Mya.
6 occurrences of Elonichthys portlocki on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
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The named rock units Elonichthys portlocki has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Elonichthys portlocki and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Elonichthys portlocki and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Mesonichthys aitkeni2 sites
- Acanthodopsis acuta1 site
- Acanthodopsis summiti1 site
- Acrolepis hopkinsi1 site
- Elonichthys oblongus1 site
- Palaeoniscidae1 site
- Platysomus1 site
- Rhadinichthys1 site
- Rhadinichthys monensis1 site
- Trawdenia planti1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Elonichthys portlocki, 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
3 references- On the Fish Fauna of the Pendleside Limestones3
- LXXIV.—Notes on some Carboniferous Palæoniscids2
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates1
Each of the 6 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 Elonichthys portlocki was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Elonichthys portlocki, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elonichthys portlocki 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 itElonichthys through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Egerton 1850)