Ichthyostega watsoni
No picture of Ichthyostega watsoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ichthyostega watsoni itself, so it was not used. 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 Ichthyostega watsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchthyostegaPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
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.
2 occurrences of Ichthyostega watsoni 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
2 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
- Britta Dal Formation · Celsius Bjerg Group1
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The named rock units Ichthyostega watsoni 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.
Ichthyostega watsoni and its relatives
DevonianWhere Ichthyostega watsoni and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Ichthyostega watsoni, so there is nothing to compare it with.
Entered from
2 references- Taxonomic revision of the Late Devonian tetrapod Ichthyostega from East Greenland1
- Preliminary note on Devonian stegocephalians from East Greenland1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Ichthyostega watsoni was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Ichthyostega watsoni itself, so it was not used.
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 Ichthyostega watsoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ichthyostega watsoni 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 itIchthyostega through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Säve-Söderbergh 1932