Phyllolepidae
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ActinolepidiformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 383.4 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.
21 occurrences of Phyllolepidae 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
21 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
15 formations
- Lower mudstone unit Formation · Avon River Group2
- Catskill Formation2
- Glenvale Sandstone Formation2
- Zoologdalen/Andersson Land Formation2
- Aztec Siltstone Formation2
- Bindaree Formation · Wellington Volcanic Group2
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The named rock units Phyllolepidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Phyllolepidae and its relatives
DevonianWhere Phyllolepidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
105 taxa- Dipnoi4 sites
- Gronlandaspis4 sites
- Bothriolepis cullodenensis3 sites
- Phyllolepis3 sites
- Sarcopterygii3 sites
- Acanthodii2 sites
- Bothriolepis2 sites
- Bothriolepis warreni2 sites
- Conchodus2 sites
- Glyptolepis2 sites
- Holoptychiidae2 sites
- Holoptychius nobilissimus2 sites
- Osteolepidae2 sites
- Palaeoniscidae2 sites
- Phyllolepis concentrica2 sites
- Porolepidiformes2 sites
- Actinistia1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Ageleodus pectinatus1 site
- Anostraca1 site
- Asterolepis maxima1 site
- Austrophyllolepis dulciensis1 site
- Austrophyllolepis quiltyi1 site
- Austrophyllolepis ritchiei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Phyllolepidae, 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
15 references- A New Phyllolepid Placoderm Occurrence (Devonian Fish) from the Dulcie Sandstone, Georgina Basin, Central Australia4
- First Articulated Phyllolepid Placoderm from North America, with Comments on Phyllolepid Systematics2
- New phyllolepids from Victoria and the relationships of the Group2
- New bothriolepid fish from the Late Devonian of Victoria, Australia2
- A new species of Eusthenodon (Sarcopterygii, Tristichopteridae) from the Upper Devonian (Famennian) of Pennsylvania, U.S.A., and a review of Eusthenodon taxonomy1
- Placoderm Assemblage from the Tetrapod-Bearing Locality of Strud (Belgium, Upper Famennian) Provides Evidence for a Fish Nursery1
- Taphonomy of the vertebrate bone beds from the Klūnas fossil site, Upper Devonian Tērvete Formation of Latvia1
- Redescription of Drepanopterus abonensis (Chelicerata: Eurypterida: Stylonurina) From The Late Devonian Of Portishead, UK1
- Vertebrate micro-remains from the Upper Devonian of East Greenland with comments on the Frasnian–Famennian boundary1
- Phyllolepis rossimontina sp. nov. (Placodermi) from the uppermost Devonian at Red Hill, North-Central Pennsylvania1
- Cowralepis, a new genus of phyllolepid fish (Pisces, Placodermi) from the Late Middle Devonian of New South Wales, Australia1
- A new late Devonian bothriolepid (placodermi, antiarcha) from Victoria, with descriptions of other species from the state1
Each of the 21 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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
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No picture of Phyllolepidae was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Phyllolepidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Phyllolepidae 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itActinolepidiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1891