Rolfosteus canningensis

Rolfosteus is an extinct monospecific genus of arthrodire placoderm from the Early Frasnian stage of the Late Devonian period, found at the Gogo Formation of Western Australia.

Rolfosteus canningensis

SeismicShrimp · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
RolfosteusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Arthrodira
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Arthrodira
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Arthrodira

Time the record covers

At most 3.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 382.31 Mya and 379 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Rolfosteus canningensis 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

1 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

1 formation

Gogo — 18.16°S, 124.30°E

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The named rock units Rolfosteus canningensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Rolfosteus canningensis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Rolfosteus canningensis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

24 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Rolfosteus canningensis, 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 reference

Each 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

Media content2

Picture of Rolfosteus canningensis

Credit
SeismicShrimp
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

Structured light scan

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not stated by the source
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Specimen
Rolfosteus canningensis · wam:74.2.56

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dennis and Miles 1979