Orvikuina

Orvikuina is an extinct genus of prehistoric bony fish.

No picture of Orvikuina 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 Orvikuina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PalaeonisciformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 399.5 Mya to 379 Mya.

Devonian — about 24 of 24 occurrencesDevonian400–399 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences399–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 2 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 2 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 2 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 2 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 2 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 2 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 2 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–385 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences379–379 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences387.95 Mya382.31 Mya400 Mya378.5 Mya

24 occurrences of Orvikuina 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

24 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

9 formations

Narva — 57.55°N, 25.29°ENarva — 59.38°N, 28.19°EAruküla — 57.55°N, 25.28°EGorodok — 55.46°N, 29.98°EKastyukovichi — 53.34°N, 32.05°EAruküla — 59.37°N, 25.08°EOsveya — 56.04°N, 28.15°EPolotsk — 52.14°N, 27.28°ERēzekne — 56.51°N, 27.33°E

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The named rock units Orvikuina has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Orvikuina and its relatives

Devonian

Where Orvikuina and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

117 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Orvikuina, 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

6 references

Each of the 24 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

Media content0

No picture of Orvikuina 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 Orvikuina, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Orvikuina 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPalaeonisciformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gross 1953