Holurus parki

President and Fellows of Harvard College · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- HolurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At least 6.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 339.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 330.3 Mya.
5 occurrences of Holurus parki 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
5 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
4 formations
- Glencartholm Volcanic Beds Formation · Upper Border Group1
- Calciferous Sandstone Formation1
- Tyne limestone Formation · Yoredale Group1
- Gostov Formation1
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The named rock units Holurus parki 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.
Holurus parki and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Holurus parki and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
51 taxa- Elonichthys pulcherrimus4 sites
- Rhadinichthys4 sites
- Elonichthys serratus3 sites
- Rhadinichthys canobiensis3 sites
- Canobius elegantulus2 sites
- Cheirodopsis geikiei2 sites
- Ctenacanthidae2 sites
- Cycloptychius concentricus2 sites
- Elonichthys2 sites
- Mesopoma pulchellum2 sites
- Phanerosteon mirabile2 sites
- Proteurynotus traquairi2 sites
- Rhizodontida2 sites
- Strepheoschema fouldenensis2 sites
- Acanthodes1 site
- Acanthodes nitidus1 site
- Acrolepis ortholepis1 site
- Adelophthalmus perornatus1 site
- Aetheretmon valentiacum1 site
- Antliodus1 site
- Canobius1 site
- Canobius ramsayi1 site
- Chondrenchelys problematica1 site
- Deltoptychius1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Holurus parki, 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
4 references- Vertebrate correlation of the Upper Devonian and Lower Carboniferous on the East European Platform2
- Glencartholm revisited: describing for the first time Stan Wood's discovery and excavation of Mumbie Quarry, adjacent to the important Palaeozoic fossil site of Glencartholm1
- Fossil Fishes of Great Britain1
- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II1
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.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Holurus parki
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHolurus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1881