Venezuelepis antarctica
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VenezuelepisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi
Time the record covers
At most 9 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 387.95 Mya and 379 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Venezuelepis antarctica 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
2 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 Venezuelepis antarctica has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Venezuelepis antarctica and its relatives
DevonianWhere Venezuelepis antarctica and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Osteolepidae2 sites
- Acritolepidae1 site
- Antarctilamna prisca1 site
- Antarctilamnidae1 site
- Aztecodus harmsenae1 site
- Bothriolepis barretti1 site
- Bothriolepis karawaka1 site
- Bothriolepis macphersoni1 site
- Bothriolepis mawsoni1 site
- Bothriolepis perija1 site
- Bothriolepis vuwae1 site
- Elasmobranchii1 site
- Groenlandaspis antarctica1 site
- Machaeracanthus1 site
- Milesacanthus antarctica1 site
- Nostolepis gaujensis1 site
- Pechoralepis juozasi1 site
- Platyethmoidia antarctica1 site
- Portalodus bradshawae1 site
- Sarcopterygii1 site
- Tristichopteridae1 site
- Turinia antarctica1 site
- Venezuelepis mingui1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Venezuelepis antarctica, 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
2 references- A Middle-Late Devonian fish fauna from the Sierra de Perijá, western Venezuela, South America1
- Antiarchs (placoderm fishes) from the Devonian Aztec Siltstone, Southern Victoria Land, Antarctica1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Venezuelepis antarctica was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Venezuelepis antarctica, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Venezuelepis antarctica 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 itVenezuelepis through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Young and Moody 2002