Phlebolepis elegans

Phlebolepis elegans

Mai Seppel · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhlebolepisPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At least 1.7 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 425 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 428.6 Mya to 422.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 12 of 12 occurrencesSilurian429–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences426.7 Mya425 Mya429.1 Mya422.2 Mya

12 occurrences of Phlebolepis elegans on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

12 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

Lower Leintwardine — 52.37°N, 2.70°WHimmiste — 59.07°N, 24.79°EHimmiste — 58.27°N, 21.96°EHemse Beds — 57.28°N, 18.62°EViita Beds — 59.07°N, 24.79°ESauvere — 59.07°N, 24.79°ESundvollen — 60.17°N, 10.30°EKuba — 57.00°N, 59.00°EUst'-Spokojnaya — 79.50°N, 96.00°EVelikoretskaya — 67.59°N, 49.12°E

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

Phlebolepis elegans and its relatives

Silurian

Where Phlebolepis elegans and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Phlebolepis elegans, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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 content1

Picture of Phlebolepis elegans

Credit
Mai Seppel
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phlebolepis elegans 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.

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What may have been alongside itPhlebolepis through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pander 1856