Palaeospondylus gunni

No picture of Palaeospondylus gunni was found. Wikidata was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Palaeospondylus gunni itself, so it was not used. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Palaeospondylus gunni firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

Time the record covers

At most 5.6 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 2 of 2 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394 Mya387.4 Mya

2 occurrences of Palaeospondylus gunni 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

2 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

2 formations

Lybster Flagstone — 58.47°N, 3.46°WUpper Stromness Flagstones — 59.08°N, 3.32°W

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

Palaeospondylus gunni and its relatives

Devonian

Where Palaeospondylus gunni and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Palaeospondylus gunni, 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

1 reference

Each of the 2 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 content1

Synchrotron Imaging scan

Licence
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Specimen
Palaeospondylus gunni · NSM:PV:NSMPV 24679

No picture of Palaeospondylus gunni was found. Wikidata was searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Palaeospondylus gunni itself, so it was not used.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Palaeospondylus gunni firmly enough to tell it from something else bearing the same name, and a search on the name alone returns whichever of them was photographed.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

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 itFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.