Uranolophus

Uranolophus is a genus of prehistoric lungfish which lived during the Late Devonian period. It is the type genus of the family Uranolophidae.

Uranolophus

Eduard Solà · 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
UranolophidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi

Time the record covers

At least 2.4 million years on record.

The record covers at least 413.02 Mya to 410.62 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 393.47 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 3 occurrencesDevonian — about 3 of 3 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences410–409 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences409–408 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences408–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–407 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences407–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–405 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences405–404 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences404–403 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences403–402 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences402–401 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences401–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–399 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences399–398 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences398–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–397 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences397–396 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences396–395 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences395–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–393 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences413.02 Mya – 410.62 Mya420.1 Mya392.9 Mya

3 occurrences of Uranolophus 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

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

1 formation

Beartooth Butte — 44.87°N, 108.07°WBeartooth Butte — 44.95°N, 109.62°W

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

Uranolophus and its relatives

Devonian

Where Uranolophus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Uranolophus, 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

2 references

Each 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. 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 Uranolophus

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

No 3D scan of Uranolophus 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 itUranolophidae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Denison 1968