Anaethalion knorri

(Blainville, 1818) · 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
- AnaethalionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes
Time the record covers
At most 9.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 152.21 Mya and 143.1 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Anaethalion knorri on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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- Late Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Anaethalion knorri 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.
Anaethalion knorri and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Anaethalion knorri and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
68 taxa- Belonostomus sphyraenoides2 sites
- Caturus elongatus2 sites
- Caturus furcatus2 sites
- Caturus pachyurus2 sites
- Pholidophorus radians2 sites
- Acanthochirana cordata1 site
- Aeger spinipes1 site
- Aeger tipularius1 site
- Allothrissops mesogaster1 site
- Allothrissops salmoneus1 site
- Altmuehlfuro boomerang1 site
- Amiopsis lepidota1 site
- Antrimpos speciosus1 site
- Araucarites1 site
- Aspidorhynchus mandibularis1 site
- Aspidorhynchus obtusirostris1 site
- Aspidorhynchus ornatissimus1 site
- Athrotaxites lycopodioides1 site
- Brachyphyllum1 site
- Callipurbeckia notopterus1 site
- Callitris1 site
- Caturus contractus1 site
- Caturus cyprinoides1 site
- Caturus macrurus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Anaethalion knorri, 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 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
Media content1

Picture of Anaethalion knorri
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- (Blainville, 1818)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anaethalion knorri 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 itAnaethalion through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (de Blainville 1818)