Onychodus sigmoides
No picture of Onychodus sigmoides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Onychodus sigmoides 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 Onychodus sigmoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnychodusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Onychodus sigmoides 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
5 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
4 formations
- Columbus Limestone Formation · Columbus Group2
- Dundee Limestone Formation · Colombus Group1
- Kush Yeilagh Formation1
- Delaware Limestone Formation1
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The named rock units Onychodus sigmoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Onychodus sigmoides and its relatives
DevonianWhere Onychodus sigmoides and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Acondylacanthus gracillimus1 site
- Bothriolepis cf. kwantungensis1 site
- Coccosteidae1 site
- Crassiproetus sibleyensis1 site
- Dipteriformes1 site
- Elaeacrinus verneuili1 site
- Gyracanthus1 site
- Holonema1 site
- Hyrcanaspis bliecki1 site
- Ischnacanthiformes1 site
- Onchus overathensis1 site
- Osteolepididae1 site
- Phlyctaeniidae1 site
- Protitanichthys fossatus1 site
- Ptyctodontida1 site
- Ptyctodus1 site
- Titanichthys1 site
- Trypaulites calypso1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Onychodus sigmoides, 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
4 references- Fossil fishes from the Devonian rocks of Ohio2
- An examination of the Devonian fishes of Michigan1
- A new vertebrate locality in the Eifelian of the Khush-Yeilagh formation, eastern Alborz, Iran1
- On some remarkable fossil fishes discovered by Rev. H. Herzer in the black shale (Devonian) at Delaware, Ohio1
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Onychodus sigmoides was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Onychodus sigmoides 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 Onychodus sigmoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Onychodus sigmoides 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 itOnychodus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newberry 1857