Skamolepis
No picture of Skamolepis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Skamolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ThelodontiformesPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata
Time the record covers
At most 23 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 410.62 Mya and 387.95 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Skamolepis 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
2 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 Skamolepis 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.
Skamolepis and its relatives
DevonianWhere Skamolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Acanthodes2 sites
- Cheiracanthus2 sites
- Haplacanthus2 sites
- Ptychodictyon2 sites
- Actinolepis1 site
- Actinopterygii1 site
- Amaltheolepis1 site
- Arthrodira1 site
- Balticaspis latvica1 site
- Cheiracanthus brevicostatus1 site
- Cheiracanthus latus1 site
- Cheirolepis1 site
- Cheirolepis bychovensis1 site
- Cheirolepis gracilis1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Ectopacanthus1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Homostius1 site
- Laliacanthus1 site
- Markacanthus1 site
- Nostolepis1 site
- Orvikuina1 site
- Porolepis1 site
- Pruemolepis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Skamolepis, 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
2 references- A new species of ray-finned fish (Osteichthyes, Actinopterygii) from the upper Emsian and lowermost Eifelian deposits of Belarus1
- Palaeozoogeographical connections of the Devonian vertebrate communities of the Baltica Province. Part I. Eifelian–Givetian1
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. 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
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No picture of Skamolepis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Skamolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Skamolepis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itThelodontiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Karatajute-Talimaa 1978