Ctenacanthoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CtenacanthiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes

Time the record covers

At least 349 million years on record.

The record covers at least 372.15 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 382.31 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 13 of 25 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 2 of 25 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 25 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 4 of 25 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 25 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 25 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesEocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 25 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 25 occurrences390–377 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences377–364 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences364–352 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences352–339 Mya — about 1 occurrence339–326 Mya — about 1 occurrence326–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences301–288 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences288–275 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences275–263 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences263–250 Mya — about 12 occurrences250–237 Mya — about 3 occurrences237–225 Mya — about 1 occurrence225–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–199 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences34–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–8.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences372.15 Mya23.04 Mya390 Mya9 Mya

25 occurrences of Ctenacanthoidea 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

25 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

9 formations

Kupferschiefer — 52.23°N, 7.96°EKupferschiefer — 50.97°N, 10.01°EZechstein — 51.23°N, 8.89°EZechstein — 51.49°N, 6.55°EZechstein — 49.89°N, 9.35°ELockatong — 40.20°N, 75.27°WLockatong — 40.26°N, 75.18°WThaynes — 42.14°N, 111.22°WSulphur Mountain — 54.60°N, 120.70°WSiksikpuk — 68.71°N, 165.79°WGrès de Mortinsart — 49.75°N, 5.79°EAmanakskaya — 51.82°N, 54.99°EGneudna — 24.06°S, 115.21°E

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The named rock units Ctenacanthoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctenacanthoidea and its relatives

Permian

Where Ctenacanthoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Ctenacanthoidea, 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

18 references

Each of the 25 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. 6 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

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No picture of Ctenacanthoidea was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Ctenacanthoidea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ctenacanthoidea 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 itCtenacanthiformes through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zangerl 1981