Strunius

Searched as Strunius cf. rolani. The Paleobiology Database treats Strunius as the accepted name.

Strunius is an extinct genus of lobe-finned fish from the Late Devonian period of Germany and Latvia. The genus contains two named species, S. rolandi and S. walteri, as well as a third unnamed species from the Lode Quarry of Latvia.

Strunius

Ciudad Real, M., Mondéjar-Fernández, J., Vidal, D., & Botella, H. · CC BY 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OnychodontiformesPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 368.5 Mya and 365.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

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1 occurrence of Strunius 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

1 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

1 formation

Turgenevo — 52.90°N, 36.03°E

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

Strunius and its relatives

Devonian

Where Strunius and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

58 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Strunius, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Strunius

Credit
Ciudad Real, M., Mondéjar-Fernández, J., Vidal, D., & Botella, H.
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Strunius 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itOnychodontiformes through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jessen 1966