Pampetalichthys
No picture of Pampetalichthys 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 Pampetalichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MacropetalichthyidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi
Time the record covers
At most 14 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 413.02 Mya and 399.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Pampetalichthys 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- 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Pampetalichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pampetalichthys and its relatives
DevonianWhere Pampetalichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Eugaleaspis1 site
- Gantarostrataspis1 site
- Mizia longhuaensis1 site
- Pterogonaspis yuhaii1 site
- Sanchaspis magalarostrata1 site
- Szelepis1 site
- Youngolepis1 site
- Yunnanolepis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Pampetalichthys, 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
2 references- A new Macropetalichthyid from China, with special reference to the historical zoogeography of the Macropetalichthyidae (Placodermi)1
- Two new eugaleaspids, with a discussion on eugaleaspid phylogeny1
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 content0
No picture of Pampetalichthys 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 Pampetalichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pampetalichthys was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMacropetalichthyidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhu 2000