Cosmetodon

Cosmetodon

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ParallelodontidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB, for Parallelodontidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At least 217 million years on record.

The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 290.1 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Permian — about 34 of 205 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 205 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 0 of 205 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 8 of 205 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 18 of 205 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 20 of 205 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 55 of 205 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 6 of 205 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 205 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 51 of 205 occurrences295–287 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences287–279 Mya — about 6 occurrences279–271 Mya — about 7 occurrences271–263 Mya — about 4 occurrences263–255 Mya — about 10 occurrences255–247 Mya — about 6 occurrences215–208 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences208–200 Mya — about 9 occurrences200–192 Mya — about 5 occurrences192–184 Mya — about 6 occurrences184–176 Mya — about 6 occurrences176–168 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences168–160 Mya — about 20 occurrences160–152 Mya — about 11 occurrences152–144 Mya — about 36 occurrences144–136 Mya — about 7 occurrences136–128 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences128–120 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences120–113 Mya — about 2 occurrences113–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–97 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences73–65 Mya — about 25 occurrences65–57 Mya — about 39 occurrences283.3 Mya66 Mya295 Mya57 Mya

205 occurrences of Cosmetodon 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

205 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

48 formations

Jagüel — 38.13°S, 68.41°WKap Leslie — 70.48°N, 21.97°WChari — 23.50°N, 70.50°ELoray — 39.21°N, 114.98°WLoray — 39.01°N, 114.88°WNayband — 32.50°N, 57.35°ENayband — 32.38°N, 57.50°EKehalia — 30.71°N, 33.37°EKehalia — 30.71°N, 33.50°EKehalia — 30.68°N, 33.30°EKaibab — 35.20°N, 111.57°WKaibab — 35.72°N, 111.47°WDouling — 26.55°N, 112.50°EDouling — 27.62°N, 111.65°EDouling — 25.80°N, 113.00°EDouling — 27.75°N, 111.77°EKimmeridge-clay — 51.32°N, 2.23°WTuotuohe or Suwa — 33.33°N, 90.75°ETuotuohe or Suwa — 33.00°N, 91.00°ENiranohama — 38.50°N, 141.33°ENiranohama — 38.67°N, 141.43°EH. S. Lee — 4.28°N, 101.10°EKapp Starostin — 78.08°N, 13.80°EXintianmen — 25.68°N, 113.23°EFox Hills — 45.14°N, 100.88°WAkasaka — 35.40°N, 136.58°EAmaltheenton — 49.79°N, 11.04°EBellerophon — 46.58°N, 11.70°EBellerophon — 46.67°N, 11.90°EArcturus — 39.38°N, 113.71°WHaidateyama — 33.17°N, 131.50°EKogoshio — 39.00°N, 141.50°ENakanosawa — 37.83°N, 140.92°EHiraiga — 40.00°N, 141.83°EHigashinagano — 34.17°N, 131.00°E

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The named rock units Cosmetodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 27 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cosmetodon and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Cosmetodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

1,425 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 131 sites for Cosmetodon, 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

40 references

Each of the 205 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. 28 further references are not listed. 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

Picture of Cosmetodon

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Cosmetodon 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 itParallelodontidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Branson 1942)