Wangolepis

No picture of Wangolepis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Wangolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PlacodermiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Placodermi
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Placodermi
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Placodermi

Time the record covers

At least 2.3 million years on record.

The record covers at least 432.9 Mya to 430.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 438.6 Mya to 426.7 Mya.

Silurian — about 4 of 4 occurrencesSilurian439–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–438 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences438–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–437 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences437–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–436 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences436–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–435 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences435–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–434 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences434–433 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences433–433 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences431–431 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences431–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–430 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences430–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–429 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences429–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–428 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences428–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences427–427 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences432.9 Mya430.6 Mya439.1 Mya426.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Wangolepis 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

4 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

Xiushan — 29.63°N, 111.75°EXiaoxiyu — 29.22°N, 109.80°EHuixingshao — 28.37°N, 108.85°EYujiadashan — 25.55°N, 103.30°E

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

Wangolepis and its relatives

Silurian

Where Wangolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Silurian.

Found in the same rock

1 taxon

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Wangolepis, 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 reference

Each of the 4 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

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No picture of Wangolepis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Wangolepis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPlacodermi through timeFormations of the SilurianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pan 1986