Psammosteoidei
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PteraspidiformesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At least 18 million years on record.
The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 372.15 Mya.
6 occurrences of Psammosteoidei 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
6 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Psammosteoidei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Psammosteoidei and its relatives
DevonianWhere Psammosteoidei and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
46 taxa- Acanthodes3 sites
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus3 sites
- Cheiracanthus latus3 sites
- Cheirolepis bychovensis3 sites
- Actinopterygii2 sites
- Cheiracanthus2 sites
- Chondrichthyes2 sites
- Diplacanthus2 sites
- Haplacanthus marginalis2 sites
- Laliacanthus singularis2 sites
- Onychodontidae2 sites
- Onychodontiformes2 sites
- Onychodus2 sites
- Osteolepididae2 sites
- Rhadinacanthus primaris2 sites
- Schizosteus2 sites
- Acanthodii1 site
- Actinolepis zaikai1 site
- Antiarchi1 site
- Asterolepis1 site
- Bothriolepis maxima1 site
- Bothriolepis rex1 site
- Byssacanthus dilatatus1 site
- Cheiracanthus splendens1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Psammosteoidei, 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
3 references- A new species of ray-finned fish (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the upper Emsian and lowermost Eifelian deposits of Belarus3
- A revision of Obruchevia (Psammosteida: Heterostraci) and a description of a new obrucheviid from the Late Devonian of the Canadian Arctic2
- A new species of the Devonian actinopterygian fish Moythomasia from Belarus1
Each of the 6 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 Psammosteoidei 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 Psammosteoidei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Psammosteoidei 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 itPteraspidiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.