Sphaerolepis kounoviensis

Sphaerolepis kounoviensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SphaerolepisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Palaeonisciformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Palaeonisciformes

Time the record covers

At most 4.8 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 303.7 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 59 of 59 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 59 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–303 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–302 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 5 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 10 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 10 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 10 occurrences301–301 Mya — about 10 occurrences301–300 Mya — about 10 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 2 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–300 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences304.2 Mya298.4 Mya

59 occurrences of Sphaerolepis kounoviensis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

59 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

Slaný — 50.21°N, 13.68°ESlaný — 50.44°N, 15.13°ESlaný — 50.41°N, 14.45°ESlaný — 50.33°N, 14.87°ESlaný — 50.32°N, 14.62°ESlaný — 50.08°N, 14.33°ESlaný — 50.23°N, 13.97°ESlaný — 50.15°N, 13.63°ESlaný — 50.21°N, 13.78°ESlaný — 50.35°N, 14.70°ESlaný — 50.36°N, 14.76°ESlaný — 50.26°N, 14.03°ESlaný — 49.71°N, 13.21°ESlaný — 50.22°N, 13.88°ESlaný — 50.33°N, 14.75°ESlaný — 50.19°N, 14.08°ELíně — 50.51°N, 14.43°ELíně — 50.44°N, 15.13°ELíně — 50.41°N, 14.45°ELíně — 50.37°N, 14.15°ELíně — 50.37°N, 15.01°ELíně — 50.28°N, 14.07°ELíně — 50.29°N, 13.99°ELíně — 50.37°N, 14.51°ELíně — 50.35°N, 14.70°ELíně — 50.36°N, 14.76°ELíně — 50.29°N, 13.92°ELíně — 50.33°N, 14.75°ESemily — 50.50°N, 15.43°ESemily — 50.44°N, 15.13°ESemily — 50.57°N, 15.40°ESemily — 50.57°N, 15.35°ESemily — 50.19°N, 15.14°ESyřenov — 50.44°N, 15.13°ESyřenov — 50.50°N, 15.43°ESlany — 50.23°N, 14.07°EChvaleč — 50.62°N, 15.99°E

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The named rock units Sphaerolepis kounoviensis 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.

Sphaerolepis kounoviensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Sphaerolepis kounoviensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

18 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 59 sites for Sphaerolepis kounoviensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

4 references

Each of the 59 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 content1

Picture of Sphaerolepis kounoviensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sphaerolepis kounoviensis 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.

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What may have been alongside itSphaerolepis through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Frič 1875