Acanthodes bronni

Agassiz, 1833 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
- AcanthodesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Acanthodii
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Acanthodii
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Acanthodii
Time the record covers
At most 5.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 298.9 Mya and 293.52 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Acanthodes bronni on record, most of them in the Permian. 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- Permian100%
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
- Meisenheim Formation · Glan Group1
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The named rock units Acanthodes bronni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Acanthodes bronni and its relatives
PermianWhere Acanthodes bronni and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
4 taxa- Acanthodes splendidus1 site
- Conchopoma gadiforme1 site
- Melanerpeton humbergense1 site
- Sclerocephalus haeuseri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Acanthodes bronni, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Acanthodes bronni
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Agassiz, 1833
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Acanthodes bronni 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 itAcanthodes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1833)