Thecostegites

Thecostegites

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ThecostegitidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Auloporida
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Auloporida
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Auloporida
Vision
blindPBDB, for Anthozoa

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 422.7 Mya to 375.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 426.7 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Silurian — about 1 of 15 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 14 of 15 occurrencesDevonian428–426 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences426–424 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences424–422 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences420–418 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences418–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–413 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences413–411 Mya — about 2 occurrences411–409 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences409–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences398–396 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences396–394 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences394–392 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences392–390 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences390–388 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences388–386 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences386–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–382 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 1 occurrence381–379 Mya — about 1 occurrence379–377 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences377–375 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences375–373 Mya — about 1 occurrence373–371 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences422.7 Mya375.2 Mya428 Mya371 Mya

15 occurrences of Thecostegites 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

15 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

8 formations

Ferques — 50.83°N, 1.77°EMia Le — 22.23°N, 106.18°EErtang — 23.60°N, 109.65°EPoint Hibbs — 42.62°S, 145.25°ENeuville — 50.17°N, 4.50°ENam Pia — 21.43°N, 104.12°ESafonovski — 56.13°N, 85.97°EOlsenak — 34.20°N, 68.25°E

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The named rock units Thecostegites has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Thecostegites and its relatives

Devonian

Where Thecostegites and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

87 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Thecostegites, 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

8 references

Each of the 15 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 Thecostegites

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

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 itThecostegitidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849