Thursius estonicus

Paul · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. 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
- ThursiusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 2.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 385.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Thursius estonicus 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
3 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
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The named rock units Thursius estonicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thursius estonicus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Thursius estonicus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Actinolepis tuberculata3 sites
- Asterolepis estonica3 sites
- Byssacanthus dilatatus3 sites
- Dickosteus3 sites
- Ganosteus artus3 sites
- Glyptolepis3 sites
- Gyroptychius pauli3 sites
- Homostius latus3 sites
- Tartuosteus3 sites
- Tartuosteus giganteus3 sites
- Vladimirolepis proia3 sites
- Cheirolepis2 sites
- Heterosteus ingens2 sites
- Holonema obrutshevi2 sites
- Orvikuina2 sites
- Pycnosteus palaeformis2 sites
- Pycnosteus pauli2 sites
- Schizosteus striatus2 sites
- Cheiracanthus1 site
- Conchodus1 site
- Diplacanthus1 site
- Dipterus1 site
- Heterostius1 site
- Hybosteus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Thursius estonicus, 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 referenceEach of the 3 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Thursius estonicus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Paul
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Thursius estonicus 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 itThursius through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Vorobyeva 1977