Cooperodon
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 most 8.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 307 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
9 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
9 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Cherryvale shale Formation · Kansas City Group8
- Foraker Formation · Council Grove Group1
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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.
Cooperodon and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Cooperodon and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Gunnellodus bellistriatus2 sites
- Palaeoniscum2 sites
- Williamsella typicalis2 sites
- Cavusgnathus lautus1 site
- Cooleyella cuspidata1 site
- Cooleyella quadrilobata1 site
- Cooleyella quinqueloba1 site
- Cooleyella simplex1 site
- Cooleyella spatulata1 site
- Cooperella eroda1 site
- Cooperella rectistriata1 site
- Cooperella selluliformis1 site
- Cooperella striata1 site
- Cooperella striatula1 site
- Cooperella subsulcata1 site
- Euprioniodina1 site
- Hammondella crassa1 site
- Hammondella globosa1 site
- Holmesella crassa1 site
- Idiognathodus cherryvalensis1 site
- Idiognathodus corrugatus1 site
- Idiognathodus rotundus1 site
- Idiognathodus strigillatus1 site
- Idiognathodus symmetricus1 site
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
1 referenceEach of the 9 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 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.
No 3D scan of Cooperodon 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.
Keep going
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. Whitley 1956