Elonichthys striatulus
No picture of Elonichthys striatulus 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 striatulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElonichthysPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 9.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 339.9 Mya and 330.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Elonichthys striatulus 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
4 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
- Gullane Formation · Strathclyde Group3
- West Lothian Oil Shale Formation · Strathclyde Group1
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The named rock units Elonichthys striatulus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elonichthys striatulus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Elonichthys striatulus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Cosmoptychius striatus4 sites
- Elonichthys robisoni4 sites
- Rhadinichthys ornatissimus4 sites
- Gonatodus punctatus3 sites
- Nematoptychius greenocki3 sites
- Rhadinichthys carinatus3 sites
- Acanthodes sulcatus2 sites
- Ctenacanthidae2 sites
- Eurynotus2 sites
- Rhadinichthys brevis2 sites
- Ganopristodus lobatus1 site
- Megalichthys1 site
- Notacmon crenatus1 site
- Phaneropleuron elegans1 site
- Rhadinichthys canobiensis1 site
- Rhadinichthys formosus1 site
- Tristychius1 site
- Wardichthys cyclosoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Elonichthys striatulus, 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- Recent discoveries of Carboniferous fishes in Edinburgh2
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates1
- Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland from Shales exposed on the Shore near Gullane, East Lothian1
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 Elonichthys striatulus 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 striatulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elonichthys striatulus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
Keep going
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. Traquair 1904