Yunnanolepis

Yunnanolepis

Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · via Wikidata/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
YunnanolepididaePBDB
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 419.62 Mya and 410.62 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Silurian — about 0 of 11 occurrencesDevonian — about 11 of 11 occurrencesDevonian420–419 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences419–419 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences419–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–418 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences418–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–417 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences417–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences416–416 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences416–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–415 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences415–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–414 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences414–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–413 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences413–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–412 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences412–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–411 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences411–410 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences420.1 Mya410.1 Mya

11 occurrences of Yunnanolepis 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

11 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

5 formations

Xishancun — 25.49°N, 103.80°EXitun — 25.49°N, 103.80°ELianhuashan — 22.39°N, 107.55°EBac Bun — 21.68°N, 106.56°EXujiachong — 25.57°N, 103.74°E

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

Yunnanolepis and its relatives

Devonian

Where Yunnanolepis and its relatives were recorded in the Devonian.

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Yunnanolepis, 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

4 references

Each of the 11 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 Yunnanolepis

Credit
Apokryltaros at English Wikipedia
Licence
CC BY 2.5
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Yunnanolepis 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 itYunnanolepididae through timeFormations of the DevonianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Liu 1963