About: Elegestolepis     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : dbo:Fish, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2FElegestolepis

Elegestolepis is a primitive shark from the Mongolepidida that lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods in Russia with only one species, E. grossi, known to date. It was closely related to and . It is only known from fragmentary placoid scales discovered in Russia before 1973. The oldest of these scales have been dated back to the Ludlow epoch (427.4 Ma to 423 Ma), making Elegestolepis the oldest known shark.Elegestolepis dates back to about 420 years ago, but some scales that may yet represent another shark ancestor are known from 450 million years ago.

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • Elegestolepis (en)
rdfs:comment
  • Elegestolepis is a primitive shark from the Mongolepidida that lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods in Russia with only one species, E. grossi, known to date. It was closely related to and . It is only known from fragmentary placoid scales discovered in Russia before 1973. The oldest of these scales have been dated back to the Ludlow epoch (427.4 Ma to 423 Ma), making Elegestolepis the oldest known shark.Elegestolepis dates back to about 420 years ago, but some scales that may yet represent another shark ancestor are known from 450 million years ago. (en)
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Link from a Wikipage to an external page
sameAs
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
authority
  • Karatajute & Talimaa, 1973 (en)
display parents
fossil range
  • Late Silurian-Early Devonian, (en)
genus
  • Elegestolepis (en)
parent authority
  • Karatajute & Talimaa, 1973 (en)
species
  • grossi (en)
has abstract
  • Elegestolepis is a primitive shark from the Mongolepidida that lived during the Silurian and Devonian periods in Russia with only one species, E. grossi, known to date. It was closely related to and . It is only known from fragmentary placoid scales discovered in Russia before 1973. The oldest of these scales have been dated back to the Ludlow epoch (427.4 Ma to 423 Ma), making Elegestolepis the oldest known shark.Elegestolepis dates back to about 420 years ago, but some scales that may yet represent another shark ancestor are known from 450 million years ago. (en)
gold:hypernym
prov:wasDerivedFrom
page length (characters) of wiki page
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
is Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3330 as of Mar 19 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (378 GB total memory, 60 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software