Rhadinichthys brevis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhadinichthysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 335.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Rhadinichthys brevis 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
6 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Gullane Formation · Strathclyde Group4
- Anstruther Formation · Cementstone Group1
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The named rock units Rhadinichthys brevis 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.
Rhadinichthys brevis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Rhadinichthys brevis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Cosmoptychius striatus5 sites
- Elonichthys robisoni4 sites
- Nematoptychius greenocki4 sites
- Rhadinichthys carinatus4 sites
- Rhadinichthys ornatissimus4 sites
- Gonatodus punctatus3 sites
- Notacmon crenatus3 sites
- Acanthodes sulcatus2 sites
- Ctenacanthidae2 sites
- Elonichthys striatulus2 sites
- Eurynotus2 sites
- Lethiscus stocki1 site
- Megalichthys1 site
- Rhadinichthys canobiensis1 site
- Rhadinichthys formosus1 site
- Wardichthys cyclosoma1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Rhadinichthys brevis, 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
4 references- Recent discoveries of Carboniferous fishes in Edinburgh2
- Report on Fossil Fishes collected by the Geological Survey of Scotland from Shales exposed on the Shore near Gullane, East Lothian2
- IV.—Notes on the Lower Carboniferous Fishes of Eastern Fifeshire1
- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II1
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Rhadinichthys brevis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rhadinichthys brevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itRhadinichthys through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1877