Coelodus plethodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoelodusPBDB
- Diet
- durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
6 occurrences of Coelodus plethodon on record, most of them in the Late 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
6 occurrences- Late 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
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The named rock units Coelodus plethodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coelodus plethodon and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Coelodus plethodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Ceratodus humei2 sites
- Enchodontidae2 sites
- Onchosaurus pharao2 sites
- Schizorhiza stromeri2 sites
- Stratodus apicalis2 sites
- Acrotemnus faba1 site
- Aegyptosuchus1 site
- Asteracanthus1 site
- Asteracanthus aegyptiacus1 site
- Bahariasaurus ingens1 site
- Ceratodus1 site
- Ceratodus tuberculatus1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Cylindracanthus bisulcatus1 site
- Enchodus lamberti1 site
- Ischirhiza nigeriensis1 site
- Lepisosteidae1 site
- Mosasauridae1 site
- Myliobatis1 site
- Neoceratodus africanus1 site
- Plicatoscyllium lehneri1 site
- Pycnodontidae1 site
- Stephanodus1 site
- Testudinata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Coelodus plethodon, 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
2 references- Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]3
- Vertébrés fossiles du bassin du Niger [Fossil vertebrates of the Niger basin]3
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Coelodus plethodon 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 Coelodus plethodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Coelodus plethodon 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 itCoelodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg and Joleaud 1943