Arctacanthus phosphoriensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ArctacanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 259.857 Mya and 254.14 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Arctacanthus phosphoriensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
5 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Arctacanthus phosphoriensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Arctacanthus phosphoriensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Arctacanthus phosphoriensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
11 taxa- Helodus subpolitus4 sites
- Arctacanthus multisectus2 sites
- Glabrocingulum phosphatica2 sites
- Acondylacanthus browni1 site
- Agassizodus variabilis1 site
- Arctacanthus wyomingensis1 site
- Ctenacanthus mutabilis1 site
- Glikmanius occidentalis1 site
- Helicoprion1 site
- Nuculopsis poposiensis1 site
- Polidevcia bellistriata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Arctacanthus phosphoriensis, 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- Fish fauna of the middle Phosphoria Formation3
- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Phosphoria Formation2
Each of the 5 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
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No picture of Arctacanthus phosphoriensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Arctacanthus phosphoriensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Arctacanthus phosphoriensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itArctacanthus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branson 1930)