Thursius pholidotus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/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
- ThursiusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 387.95 Mya to 385.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 393.47 Mya to 382.31 Mya.
3 occurrences of Thursius pholidotus 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
3 formations
- Ham-Scarfskerry Flagstone Formation · Upper Caithness Flagstone Group1
- Berriedale Flagstone Formation · Lower Caithness Flagstone Group1
- Mey Flagstone Formation · Upper Caithness Flagstone Group1
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The named rock units Thursius pholidotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Thursius pholidotus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Thursius pholidotus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Acanthodii3 sites
- Homosteus milleri3 sites
- Osteolepis panderi3 sites
- Dipterus valenciennesi2 sites
- Mesacanthus pusillus2 sites
- Cheiracanthus1 site
- Dickosteus threiplandi1 site
- Dipterus1 site
- Glyptolepis1 site
- Glyptolepis paucidens1 site
- Gyroptychius agassizi1 site
- Mesacanthus peachi1 site
- Millerosteus minor1 site
- Rhadinacanthus longispinus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Thursius pholidotus, 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
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 pholidotus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- nobody named on the record
- Licence
- not stated by the source
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No 3D scan of Thursius pholidotus 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. Traquair 1888