Ageleodus

Ageleodus is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish from the Paleozoic era. It is known from two species, both of which are based upon isolated teeth. A. pectinatus is known from the Carboniferous of Europe and North America. A. altus was described in 2006 from the Carboniferous of Australia. Four teeth from the Tournaisian deposits of Canning Basin probably present another Australian species although their shape is likely caused by physical wear rather than species features. This genus is also known from the Famennian of the Catskill formation at the Red Hill Site in Hyner, Pennsylvania. A study of 382 specimens from the site showed the strong heterodonty of this genus, which varies widely in tooth length and cusp number. This study described them as A. pectinatus, but the paper which described A. altus tentatively labeled them Ageleodus cf. A. altus. While generally considered a chondrichthyan, it has eluded classification into any known order or family.

Ageleodus

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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
HolocephaliPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Holocephali
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Holocephali
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holocephali

Time the record covers

At least 43 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 303.7 Mya.

Devonian — about 2 of 6 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 4 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferous374–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–369 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences369–366 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences366–364 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences364–362 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences362–359 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences359–357 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences347–345 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences345–343 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences340–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–336 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences336–333 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences312–309 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences358.86 Mya315.2 Mya374 Mya302 Mya

6 occurrences of Ageleodus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

6 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

3 formations

Catskill — 41.34°N, 77.68°WKanawha — 38.00°N, 81.00°WRubchan — 52.07°N, 27.74°E

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The named rock units Ageleodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ageleodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Ageleodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

28 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Ageleodus, 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

4 references

Each of the 6 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 Ageleodus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ageleodus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHolocephali through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1867