Physonemus mirabilis
No picture of Physonemus mirabilis 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 Physonemus mirabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PhysonemusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 4.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 293.52 Mya.
3 occurrences of Physonemus mirabilis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
3 occurrences- Carboniferous67%
- Permian33%
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
- Coffeyville Formation1
- Grenola Formation · Council Grove Group1
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The named rock units Physonemus mirabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Physonemus mirabilis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Physonemus mirabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Ctenacanthus2 sites
- Glikmanius occidentalis2 sites
- Acanthodiformes1 site
- Acrodus1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Agassizodus1 site
- Agassizodus variabilis1 site
- Antliodus1 site
- Bransonella lingulata1 site
- Chomatodus1 site
- Cladodus1 site
- Deltodus1 site
- Denaea1 site
- Heslerodus divergens1 site
- Holmesella quadrata1 site
- Lissodus1 site
- Orodus1 site
- Peripristis semicircularis1 site
- Petalodus allegheniensis1 site
- Petalodus ohioensis1 site
- Sandalodus1 site
- Sphenacanthus1 site
- Stethacanthus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Physonemus mirabilis, 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
3 references- Late Pennsylvanian fishes from the Finis Shales of North-Central Texas (USA)1
- A Paleozoic shark fauna from the Council Grove Group (Lower Permian)1
- A large chondrichthyan spine, Physonemus mirabilis, from the Upper Pennsylvanian of Kansas, U.S.A.1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Physonemus mirabilis 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 Physonemus mirabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Physonemus mirabilis 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 itPhysonemus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. St John and Worthen 1875