Fouldenia
No picture of Fouldenia 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 Fouldenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StyracopteridaePBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 36 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 323.4 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Fouldenia 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
- Ballagan Formation · Inverclyde Group2
- Calciferous sandstone Formation · Cementstone Group1
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The named rock units Fouldenia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Fouldenia and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Fouldenia and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
10 taxa- Aetheretmon valentiacum2 sites
- Strepheoschema fouldenensis2 sites
- Cosmoptychius striatus1 site
- Lepidodendron1 site
- Ostracoda1 site
- Phanerosteon ovensi1 site
- Rhadinichthys1 site
- Spirorbis1 site
- Stamnostoma huttonense1 site
- Tristichia ovensi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Fouldenia, 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- Styracopterid (Actinopterygii) ontogeny and the multiple origins of post-Hangenberg deep-bodied fishes2
- Actinopterygian fish from the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland1
- The fish fauna of the Cementstones of Foulden, Berwickshire1
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 Fouldenia 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 Fouldenia, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Fouldenia 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itStyracopteridae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. White 1927