Aethalion robustus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AnaethalionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 125.77 Mya and 119.57 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Aethalion robustus on record, most of them in the Early Cretaceous. 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- Early Cretaceous100%
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
- Sainte-Barbe Clays Formation · Wealden Group1
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The named rock units Aethalion robustus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aethalion robustus and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Aethalion robustus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
59 taxa- Adiantites1 site
- Algites1 site
- Amiopsis dolloi1 site
- Anteophthalmosuchus epikrator1 site
- Anteophthalmosuchus hooleyi1 site
- Ascarites gerus1 site
- Ascarites priscus1 site
- Belonostomus1 site
- Bernissartia fagesii1 site
- Callopterus insignis1 site
- Caturus1 site
- Chitracephalus dumonii1 site
- Cladophlebis ungeri1 site
- Coccolepis macropterus1 site
- Conites1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Digenites proterus1 site
- Entamoebites antiquus1 site
- Equisetites1 site
- Gleichenia1 site
- Gleichenites1 site
- Hausmannia (Protorhipis)1 site
- Hylaeobatrachus croyii1 site
- Hylaeoneura lignei1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Aethalion robustus, 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
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 content0
No picture of Aethalion robustus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aethalion robustus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itAnaethalion through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1911