Thursius

Thursius is a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish.

Thursius

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
ThursiidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 382.31 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 372.15 Mya.

Devonian — about 13 of 13 occurrencesDevonian394–393 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences393–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–392 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences392–391 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences391–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–390 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences390–389 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences389–388 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences388–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–387 Mya — about 1 occurrence387–386 Mya — about 1 occurrence386–385 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences385–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–384 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences384–383 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences383–382 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences382–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–381 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences381–380 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences380–379 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences379–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–378 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences378–377 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences377–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–375 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences375–374 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences374–373 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences373–372 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences372–372 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences387.95 Mya382.31 Mya394 Mya371.6 Mya

13 occurrences of Thursius 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

13 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

11 formations

Narva — 57.55°N, 25.29°EAruküla — 57.55°N, 25.28°EEscuminac — 48.13°N, 66.36°WNarva — 59.38°N, 28.19°EAruküla — 59.37°N, 25.08°EOberer Plattenkalk — 50.99°N, 7.16°ELybster Flagstone — 58.44°N, 3.50°WHam-Scarfskerry Flagstone — 58.62°N, 3.59°WBerriedale Flagstone — 58.57°N, 3.47°WMey Flagstone — 58.60°N, 3.53°WRødebjerg and Sofia Sund — 73.66°N, 23.85°W

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

Thursius and its relatives

Devonian

Where Thursius and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

62 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Thursius, 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

6 references

Each of the 13 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 content2

Picture of Thursius

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Thursius estonicus · git:TUG 1582-1

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itThursiidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1888