Sinolepidae

No picture of Sinolepidae 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 Sinolepidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SinolepiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi

Time the record covers

At least 28 million years on record.

The record covers at least 393.47 Mya to 365.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 410.62 Mya to 358.86 Mya.

Devonian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 0 of 11 occurrences412–410 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences410–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences387–385 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences372–370 Mya — about 1 occurrence370–369 Mya — about 1 occurrence369–367 Mya — about 1 occurrence367–365 Mya — about 1 occurrence365–363 Mya — about 1 occurrence363–361 Mya — about 1 occurrence361–360 Mya — about 1 occurrence360–358 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences393.47 Mya365.2 Mya412 Mya358 Mya

11 occurrences of Sinolepidae 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

11 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

5 formations

Hunter Siltstone — 33.73°S, 148.35°EHunter Siltstone — 33.74°S, 148.34°EHunter Siltstone — 33.75°S, 148.34°EZhongning — 37.18°N, 106.05°EZhongning — 37.25°N, 106.07°ELeikutai — 34.00°N, 118.00°EHexian — 23.98°N, 110.10°ETonggangling — 22.27°N, 109.97°E

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

Sinolepidae and its relatives

Devonian

Where Sinolepidae and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

35 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Sinolepidae, 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

5 references

Each of the 11 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 Sinolepidae 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 Sinolepidae, 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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What may have been alongside itSinolepiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liu and P'an 1958