Schidiosteus mustelensis
No picture of Schidiosteus mustelensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Schidiosteus mustelensis 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.
Time the record covers
At most 3.9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 430.6 Mya and 426.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Schidiosteus mustelensis on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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
3 occurrences- Silurian100%
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
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The named rock units Schidiosteus mustelensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schidiosteus mustelensis and its relatives
SilurianWhere Schidiosteus mustelensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Ctenognathodus murchisoni3 sites
- Oeselia3 sites
- Oulodus excavatus3 sites
- Oulodus siluricus3 sites
- Ozarkodina bohemica3 sites
- Ozarkodina confluens3 sites
- Ozarkodina snajdri3 sites
- Paralogania martinssoni3 sites
- Pterygolepis nitida3 sites
- Rhyncholepis parvula3 sites
- Rytidolepis quenstedtii3 sites
- Saaremaaspis mickwitzi3 sites
- Thelodus laevis3 sites
- Thyestes verrucosus3 sites
- Tremataspis milleri3 sites
- Wurmiella excavata3 sites
- Ctenognathodus2 sites
- Meelaidaspis gennadii2 sites
- Oeselaspis pustulata2 sites
- Rhyncholepis butriangula2 sites
- Tremataspis schmidti2 sites
- Kockelella1 site
- Kockelella ? spp.1 site
- Ozarkodina wimani1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Schidiosteus mustelensis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 Schidiosteus mustelensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
iDigBio and GBIF were not searched: the Paleobiology Database does not place Schidiosteus mustelensis 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.
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 itFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.