Vernicomacanthus uncinatus
No picture of Vernicomacanthus uncinatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Vernicomacanthus uncinatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- VernicomacanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 419.62 Mya and 413.02 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Vernicomacanthus uncinatus 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
1 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
1 formation
- Dundee Flagstone Formation · Arbuthnott-Garvock Group1
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The named rock units Vernicomacanthus uncinatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Vernicomacanthus uncinatus and its relatives
DevonianWhere Vernicomacanthus uncinatus and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Archidesmus macnicoli1 site
- Brachyacanthus1 site
- Cephalaspis1 site
- Climatius reticulatus1 site
- Euthacanthus macnicoli1 site
- Ischnacanthus gracilis1 site
- Mesacanthus mitchelli1 site
- Parexus recurvus1 site
- Pterygotus1 site
- Uraniacanthus1 site
- Uraniacanthus curtus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Vernicomacanthus uncinatus, 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 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Vernicomacanthus uncinatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Vernicomacanthus uncinatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Vernicomacanthus uncinatus 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 itVernicomacanthus through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on
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