Homostius sulcatus

Not Homostius sulcatus. This is Homosteus sulcatus Kutorga, 1837, a relative.
Asmuss · 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
- HomostiusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 385.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Homostius sulcatus 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- 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 Homostius sulcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Homostius sulcatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Homostius sulcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Actinolepis tuberculata1 site
- Asterolepis estonica1 site
- Byssacanthus dilatatus1 site
- Cephalaspidida1 site
- Cheirolepis1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Dickosteus1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Dipterus1 site
- Ganosteus artus1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Gyroptychius pauli1 site
- Heterosteus ingens1 site
- Holonema obrutshevi1 site
- Holoptychiidae1 site
- Homostius latus1 site
- Orvikuina1 site
- Pycnosteus palaeformis1 site
- Rhinodipterus1 site
- Tartuosteus giganteus1 site
- Vladimirolepis proia1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Homostius sulcatus, 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
1 referenceEach 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 Homosteus sulcatus Kutorga, 1837
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Asmuss
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Homostius sulcatus 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 itHomostius through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kutorga 1837