Eusthenopteron foordi

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- EustenopteronPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 372.15 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Eusthenopteron foordi 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
1 occurrences- Devonian100%
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
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The named rock units Eusthenopteron foordi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Eusthenopteron foordi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Eusthenopteron foordi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
74 taxa- Acinosporites macrospinosus1 site
- Anapiculatisporites1 site
- Anaplanisporites parviconus1 site
- Ancyrospora ? ancyrea1 site
- Ancyrospora ancyrea1 site
- Ancyrospora brevispinosa1 site
- Ancyrospora carnarvonensis1 site
- Ancyrospora cf. langii1 site
- Ancyrospora convoluta1 site
- Ancyrospora longispinosa1 site
- Ancyrospora simplex1 site
- Ancyrospora sp.1 site
- Aneurospora goensis1 site
- Apiculatasporites1 site
- Apiculiretusispora1 site
- Archaeopetris obtusa1 site
- Archaeopteris1 site
- Archaeozonotriletes variabilis1 site
- Asmusia membranacea1 site
- Auroraspora sp.1 site
- Barinophytes <negative two>1 site
- Barinophyton1 site
- Biharisporites1 site
- Bothriolepis canadensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Eusthenopteron foordi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content3

Picture of Eusthenopteron foordi
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
CT scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Eusthenopteron foordi · cmnh:vp:8153
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Licence
- Free Standard
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
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 itEustenopteron through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Whiteaves 1881