Grenfellaspis branagani
No picture of Grenfellaspis branagani 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 Grenfellaspis branagani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GrenfellaspisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 372.15 Mya and 358.86 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Grenfellaspis branagani 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
5 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 Grenfellaspis branagani has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Grenfellaspis branagani and its relatives
DevonianWhere Grenfellaspis branagani and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
9 taxa- Bothriolepis grenfellensis2 sites
- Eusthenodon gavini2 sites
- Grenfellia meemannae2 sites
- Remigolepis redcliffensis2 sites
- Adelargo schultzei1 site
- Grenfellacanthus zerinae1 site
- Gronlandaspis1 site
- Holoptychius1 site
- Yambira thompsoni1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Grenfellaspis branagani, 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
2 references- The Sinolepidae, a family of antiarchs (placoderm fishes) from the Devonian of South China and eastern Australia4
- A new Late Devonian acanthodian fish from the Hunter Formation near Grenfell, New South Wales1
Each of the 5 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
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No picture of Grenfellaspis branagani 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 Grenfellaspis branagani, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Grenfellaspis branagani 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 itGrenfellaspis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ritchie et al. 1992