Schinderhannes bartelsi
Schinderhannes bartelsi is a fossil species of hurdiid radiodont, known from a single specimen from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate in Germany. Its discovery expanded the known range of radiodonts, the latest members of which were previously known only from the Early Ordovician, over 60 million years earlier than Schinderhannes bartelsi.

Nobu Tamura http://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/ http://spinops.blogspot.com/ · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
- SchinderhannesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Radiodonta
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Radiodonta
- Motility
- fast-movingPBDB, for Radiodonta
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 393.47 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Schinderhannes bartelsi 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- Devonian100%
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 Schinderhannes bartelsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Schinderhannes bartelsi and its relatives
DevonianWhere Schinderhannes bartelsi and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
No other named taxon is catalogued from that site.
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Schinderhannes bartelsi, and this reads all of them.
Entered from
1 referenceEach 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
Picture of Schinderhannes bartelsi
- Source
- Wikipedia/Commons
- Credit
- Nobu Tamura http://paleoexhibit.blogspot.com/ http://spinops.blogspot.com/
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 3.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Schinderhannes bartelsi 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.
The description on this site
- Licence
- 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 itSchinderhannes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kühl et al. 2009