Watsonichthys pectinatus

No picture of Watsonichthys pectinatus 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 Watsonichthys pectinatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
WatsonichthysPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At most 24 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 323.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 14 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferous347–346 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences346–346 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–342 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences342–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–339 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences339–338 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences338–338 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences338–337 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences337–336 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences336–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence335–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–334 Mya — about 1 occurrence334–333 Mya — about 1 occurrence333–332 Mya — about 1 occurrence332–331 Mya — about 1 occurrence331–330 Mya — about 1 occurrence330–330 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences330–329 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences329–328 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences328–327 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences324–323 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences347.2 Mya323.1 Mya

14 occurrences of Watsonichthys pectinatus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

14 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

7 formations

West Lothian Oil Shale — 55.81°N, 3.59°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.89°N, 3.47°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.83°N, 3.65°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.88°N, 3.17°WLower Limestone — 56.31°N, 2.87°WLower Limestone — 55.90°N, 3.14°WPathhead — 56.20°N, 2.79°WLimestone Coal — 55.88°N, 3.15°WWest Lothian Oil Shale — 55.88°N, 3.52°WUpper limestone — 55.93°N, 3.11°WWest Lothian Oil Shale ? — 55.85°N, 3.57°W

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

Watsonichthys pectinatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Watsonichthys pectinatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

20 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Watsonichthys pectinatus, 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

3 references

Each of the 14 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 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 Watsonichthys pectinatus 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 Watsonichthys pectinatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Watsonichthys pectinatus 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 itWatsonichthys through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Traquair 1877)