Thyestes

Thyestes is an extinct genus of osteostracan agnathan vertebrate of Europe whose fossils are found in Middle to Late Ludlow-aged marine strata of Late Silurian Europe. Individuals of Thyestes superficially resembled Cephalaspis, but were more closely related to Auchenaspis and Tremataspis.

Thyestes

Uncredited · 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
ThyestidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chordata

Time the record covers

At least 4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 426.7 Mya to 422.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 430.6 Mya to 419.62 Mya.

Silurian — about 7 of 7 occurrencesSilurianDevonian — about 0 of 7 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences427–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–426 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–425 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences425–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–424 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences424–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–423 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences423–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–422 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences422–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–421 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences421–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences420–420 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences426.7 Mya422.7 Mya431.1 Mya419.1 Mya

7 occurrences of Thyestes on record, most of them in the Silurian. 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

7 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

4 formations

Halla — 57.61°N, 18.80°ELedbury — 51.95°N, 2.88°WKlinteberg — 57.61°N, 18.80°EVelikoretskaya — 67.59°N, 49.12°E

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

Thyestes and its relatives

Silurian

Where Thyestes and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

44 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Thyestes, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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 Thyestes

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 Thyestes 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 itThyestidae through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Eichwald 1854