Rhadinacanthus longispinus

Rhadinacanthus longispinus

Kleesment · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
RhadinacanthusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 393.47 Mya and 382.31 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Devonian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–393 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–391 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–389 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–387 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences387–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–386 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences386–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–385 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–383 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394 Mya381.8 Mya

7 occurrences of Rhadinacanthus longispinus 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

7 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

3 formations

Lybster flagstone — 57.68°N, 4.03°WLybster flagstone — 57.68°N, 2.34°WLybster flagstone — 58.47°N, 3.46°WUpper Stromness Flagstones — 59.08°N, 3.32°WMey Flagstone — 58.60°N, 3.53°W

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The named rock units Rhadinacanthus longispinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhadinacanthus longispinus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rhadinacanthus longispinus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

47 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Rhadinacanthus longispinus, 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

Each of the 7 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Rhadinacanthus longispinus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Kleesment
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhadinacanthus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1844