Lophosteus superbus

No picture of Lophosteus superbus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lophosteus superbus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LophosteusPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 1.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 421.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 3 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420–419 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences422.7 Mya421.6 Mya427.2 Mya419.1 Mya

3 occurrences of Lophosteus superbus on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

3 occurrences

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

3 formations

Ohesaare — 58.00°N, 22.02°ELapes — 55.27°N, 24.81°EJack — 17.63°S, 144.44°E

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The named rock units Lophosteus superbus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Lophosteus superbus and its relatives

Silurian

Where Lophosteus superbus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

51 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Lophosteus superbus, 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

Each of the 3 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

Media content0

No picture of Lophosteus superbus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Lophosteus superbus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pander 1856