Onychodontidae

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnychodontiformesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 95 million years on record.
The record covers at least 410.62 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 307 Mya.
35 occurrences of Onychodontidae 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
35 occurrencesThese 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
24 formations
- Windmill Limestone Formation2
- Narva Formation2
- Columbus Limestone Formation · Columbus Group2
- Kanawha Formation1
- Cedar Valley Formation1
- Dundee Formation · Colombus Group1
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The named rock units Onychodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Onychodontidae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Onychodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
347 taxa- Onychodus17 sites
- Osteolepididae8 sites
- Glyptolepis7 sites
- Holonema7 sites
- Onychodus sigmoides5 sites
- Acanthodes4 sites
- Ptyctodontida4 sites
- Actinopterygii3 sites
- Antiarchi3 sites
- Asterolepis3 sites
- Byssacanthus dilatatus3 sites
- Cheiracanthus3 sites
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus3 sites
- Cheiracanthus latus3 sites
- Chondrichthyes3 sites
- Dipnoi3 sites
- Dipterus3 sites
- Holoptychiidae3 sites
- Laliacanthus singularis3 sites
- Orvikuina vardiaensis3 sites
- Psammosteoidei3 sites
- Ptyctodus3 sites
- Asterolepis radiata2 sites
- Cephalaspidida2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 34 sites for Onychodontidae, 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
26 references- A new species of ray-finned fish (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the upper Emsian and lowermost Eifelian deposits of Belarus3
- End-Devonian extinction and a bottleneck in the early evolution of modern jawed vertebrates3
- An examination of the Devonian fishes of Michigan2
- New osteichthyans (bony fishes) from the Devonian of Central Australia2
- The Middle Devonian fishes of the Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia) and Belarus2
- Early Devonian vertebrate microfossils from the Simpson Park Range, Eureka County, Nevada2
- Fossil fishes from the Devonian rocks of Ohio2
- A new species of the Devonian actinopterygian fish Moythomasia from Belarus1
- A new Early Devonian antiarch placoderm from Belarus, and the phylogeny of Asterolepidoidei1
- The initial phase of the Hönne Valley Reef at Binolen (northern Rhenish Massif, Middle Devonian)1
- A new dipnoan genus from the Middle Devonian of Huize, Yunnan, China1
- Lithosphere1
Each of the 35 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. 14 further references are not listed. 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 Onychodontidae
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- DiBgd
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Onychodontidae 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.
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What may have been alongside itOnychodontiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1891