Kalops
No picture of Kalops 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 Kalops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinopterygiiPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Actinopterygii
Time the record covers
At least 8.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.6 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 307 Mya.
16 occurrences of Kalops 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
16 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
2 formations
- Heath Formation · Big Snowy Group15
- Staunton Formation1
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The named rock units Kalops has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Kalops and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Kalops and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
63 taxa- Fubarichthyiformes6 sites
- Wendyichthys dicksoni6 sites
- Aesopichthys erinaceus5 sites
- Paratarrasius hibbardi5 sites
- Beagiascus pulcherrimus4 sites
- Cyranorhis bergeraci4 sites
- Discoserra pectinodon4 sites
- Falcatus falcatus4 sites
- Harpagofututor volsellorhinus4 sites
- Archisymplectes rhothon3 sites
- Lineagruan snowyi3 sites
- Rainerichthys zangerli3 sites
- Animalia2 sites
- Belantsea montana2 sites
- Boeotiaspis longispinus2 sites
- Carbosesostris megaliphagon2 sites
- Damocles serratus2 sites
- Debeerius ellefseni2 sites
- Gordoniconus beargulchensis2 sites
- Lineagruan judithi2 sites
- Mesopoma2 sites
- Papilionichthys stahlae2 sites
- Phanerosteon2 sites
- Phiops aciculorum2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Kalops, 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
3 references- Two Carboniferous fine-eyed palaeoniscoids (Pisces, Actinopterygii) from Bear Gulch (USA)13
- The early diversification of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii): hypotheses, challenges and future prospects2
- A new early actinopterygian from the Mid-Pennsylvanian Logan Quarry Shale member of Indiana1
Each of the 16 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Kalops 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 Kalops, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Kalops 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itActinopterygii through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Poplin and Lund 2002