Cooperodon

Searched as Cooperella. The Paleobiology Database treats Cooperodon as the accepted name.

No picture of Cooperodon 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 Cooperodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SelachiiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Selachii
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Selachii
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Selachii

Time the record covers

At least 305 million years on record.

The record covers at least 306 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 312.8 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Carboniferous — about 10 of 17 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 17 occurrencesPliocene — about 2 of 17 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 17 occurrences319–308 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences308–298 Mya — about 9 occurrences11–0 Mya — about 7 occurrences306 Mya129 ka319 Mya0 Mya

17 occurrences of Cooperodon 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

17 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

7 formations

Cherryvale shale — 39.07°N, 94.64°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.99°N, 118.45°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WBowden — 17.88°N, 76.28°WDuplin — 34.90°N, 78.05°WForaker — 39.83°N, 95.37°WSan Pedro Sand — 33.71°N, 118.27°WMinturn — 39.90°N, 107.77°W

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The named rock units Cooperodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cooperodon and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cooperodon and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Cooperodon, 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

9 references

Each of the 17 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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cooperella atlantica · fmnh:invertebrate zoology:202928

No picture of Cooperodon 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 Cooperodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itSelachii through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gunnell 1933