Grossius aragonensis

Grossius is an extinct genus of sarcopterygian fish that lived during the Devonian period of Spain. Its size was about 1 m in length.

Grossius aragonensis

Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com ) · CC BY 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
GrossiusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 2.6 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 390.5 Mya and 387.95 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Grossius aragonensis 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

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

Moyuela — 41.10°N, 1.00°W

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The named rock units Grossius aragonensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Grossius aragonensis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Grossius aragonensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Grossius aragonensis, and this reads all of them.

Entered from

1 reference

Each 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Grossius aragonensis

Credit
Nobu Tamura ( http://spinops.blogspot.com )
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Grossius aragonensis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGrossius through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Schultze 1973