Acrodus oreodontus
No picture of Acrodus oreodontus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Acrodus oreodontus itself, so it was not used. 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 Acrodus oreodontus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 10 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 247 Mya and 237 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Acrodus oreodontus 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
2 occurrences- Middle Triassic100%
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
- Favret Formation · Star Peak Group1
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The named rock units Acrodus oreodontus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Acrodus oreodontus and its relatives
Middle TriassicWhere Acrodus oreodontus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Acrodus cuneocostatus1 site
- Acrodus spitzbergensis1 site
- Acrodus vermicularis1 site
- Birgeria1 site
- Ceratodus1 site
- Colobodus1 site
- Complanicorona rugosimargines1 site
- Hybodus1 site
- Hybodus nevadensis1 site
- Labascicorona1 site
- Mucrovenator minimus1 site
- Omanoselache bucheri1 site
- Palaeobates1 site
- Palaeobates shastensis1 site
- Palaeospinacidae1 site
- Paralepidotus1 site
- Parvidiabolus1 site
- Polyacrodus1 site
- Polyacrodus tregoi1 site
- Ptycholepis1 site
- Saurichthys1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Acrodus oreodontus, 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
2 references- A new fossil fish fauna from the Middle Triassic (Anisian) of north-western Nevada1
- New Cestraciont teeth from the west-American Triassic1
Each of the 2 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Acrodus oreodontus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Acrodus oreodontus itself, so it was not used.
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 Acrodus oreodontus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Acrodus oreodontus 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.
Keep going
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. Wemple 1906