Acrodus lateralis

Acrodus lateralis

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
AcrodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 41 million years on record.

The record covers at least 247 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 248.6 Mya to 201.4 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 14 of 16 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 1 of 16 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 16 occurrences250–248 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences248–246 Mya — about 1 occurrence246–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 2 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 5 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 1 occurrence240–238 Mya — about 2 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 1 occurrence207–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–204 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247 Mya205.7 Mya249.5 Mya200.5 Mya

16 occurrences of Acrodus lateralis on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

16 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

Besano — 45.91°N, 8.95°EMuschelkalk — 50.01°N, 11.62°EMuschelkalk — 51.25°N, 10.66°EKalapani — 30.39°N, 80.16°EKössener Schichten — 48.13°N, 16.24°EVikinghøgda — 78.31°N, 16.60°E

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The named rock units Acrodus lateralis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acrodus lateralis and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Acrodus lateralis and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

66 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Acrodus lateralis, 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

8 references

Each of the 16 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 Acrodus lateralis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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 itAcrodus through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1839