Striacanthus
No picture of Striacanthus 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 Striacanthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AcanthodiiPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At least 4.5 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 383.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 413.02 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
2 occurrences of Striacanthus 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
2 formations
- Merrimerriwa Formation · Mulga Downs Group1
- Bindaree Formation · Wellington Volcanic Group1
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The named rock units Striacanthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Striacanthus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Striacanthus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Bothriolepis1 site
- Bothriolepis cullodenensis1 site
- Bothriolepis warreni1 site
- Climatiidae1 site
- Dipnoi1 site
- Gronlandaspis1 site
- Jaekelopterus1 site
- Mulgaspis evansorum1 site
- Palaeoniscidae1 site
- Phyllolepis1 site
- Porolepis foxi1 site
- Sarcopterygii1 site
- Wuttagoonaspis fletcheri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Striacanthus, 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
2 references- Novel pterygotid sea scorpions from the Silurian and Devonian of Gondwana1
- New bothriolepid fish from the Late Devonian of Victoria, Australia1
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 Striacanthus 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 Striacanthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Striacanthus 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 itAcanthodii through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hills 1931