Gyroptychius pauli
No picture of Gyroptychius pauli 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 Gyroptychius pauli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GyroptychiusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 385.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Gyroptychius pauli 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
4 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Gyroptychius pauli has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Gyroptychius pauli and its relatives
DevonianWhere Gyroptychius pauli and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Actinolepis tuberculata4 sites
- Asterolepis estonica4 sites
- Byssacanthus dilatatus4 sites
- Dickosteus4 sites
- Ganosteus artus4 sites
- Glyptolepis4 sites
- Homostius latus4 sites
- Tartuosteus giganteus4 sites
- Vladimirolepis proia4 sites
- Cheirolepis3 sites
- Heterosteus ingens3 sites
- Holonema obrutshevi3 sites
- Orvikuina3 sites
- Pycnosteus palaeformis3 sites
- Tartuosteus3 sites
- Thursius estonicus3 sites
- Diplacanthus2 sites
- Dipterus2 sites
- Pycnosteus pauli2 sites
- Schizosteus striatus2 sites
- Cephalaspidida1 site
- Cheiracanthus1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Conchodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Gyroptychius pauli, 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 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gyroptychius pauli 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 Gyroptychius pauli, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gyroptychius pauli 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.
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What may have been alongside itGyroptychius through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vorobyeva 1977