Poracanthodus porsus
No picture of Poracanthodus porsus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Poracanthodus porsus 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 1.1 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 422.7 Mya and 421.6 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Poracanthodus porsus 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
1 occurrences- Silurian100%
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 Poracanthodus porsus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Poracanthodus porsus and its relatives
SilurianWhere Poracanthodus porsus and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acaste1 site
- Angochitina1 site
- Calymene1 site
- Crotalocrinites rugosus1 site
- Eisenackitina1 site
- Eophacops1 site
- Gomphonchus sandelensis1 site
- Nostolepis gracilis1 site
- Nostolepis striata1 site
- Proetus nieszkowskii1 site
- Syringopora1 site
- Thelodus parvidens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Poracanthodus porsus, 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 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Poracanthodus porsus was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Poracanthodus porsus 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.
No 3D scan of Poracanthodus porsus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.