Sinacanthus wuchangensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SinacanthusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 438.6 Mya and 430.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesSilurian439–439 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences439–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–432 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences432–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences439.1 Mya430.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Sinacanthus wuchangensis 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

7 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

6 formations

Yimugantawu — 39.77°N, 78.55°EYimugantawu — 40.53°N, 79.07°ETataaiertage — 40.54°N, 78.98°EFentou — 31.63°N, 117.87°EMaoshan — 30.63°N, 118.95°EGuodingshan — 30.67°N, 114.25°ERongxi — 29.17°N, 110.20°E

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

Sinacanthus wuchangensis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Sinacanthus wuchangensis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

The Paleobiology Database records no fossil sites for Sinacanthus wuchangensis, so there is nothing to compare it with.

Entered from

2 references

Each of the 7 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. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Sinacanthus wuchangensis 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 Sinacanthus wuchangensis, 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. P'an Kiang 1958