Rusophycus jenningsi

No picture of Rusophycus jenningsi was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rusophycus jenningsi 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.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RusophycusPBDB

Time the record covers

At least 118 million years on record.

The record covers at least 477.1 Mya to 358.86 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 497 Mya to 346.7 Mya.

Cambrian — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCambrianOrdovician — about 0 of 2 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesDevonian — about 0 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesCarboniferous500–495 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences495–490 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences490–484 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences484–479 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences479–474 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–344 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences477.1 Mya358.86 Mya500 Mya344 Mya

2 occurrences of Rusophycus jenningsi on record. 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

2 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

Snowy Plains — 37.01°S, 146.22°E

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The named rock units Rusophycus jenningsi 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.

Found in the same rock

9 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Rusophycus jenningsi, 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

2 references

Each of the 2 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 Rusophycus jenningsi was found. Wikipedia and Wikidata were searched and had none.

iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Rusophycus jenningsi 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 Rusophycus jenningsi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. Fenton and Fenton 1937