Ctenacanthus denticulatus
No picture of Ctenacanthus denticulatus 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 Ctenacanthus denticulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CtenacanthusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Time the record covers
At most 60 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 358.86 Mya and 298.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ctenacanthus denticulatus 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
2 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.
Ctenacanthus denticulatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ctenacanthus denticulatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
7 taxa- Orodus ramosus1 site
- Petalodus flabellula1 site
- Psephodus dubius1 site
- Psephodus salopiensis1 site
- Sandalodus morrisii1 site
- Stichacanthus coemansi1 site
- Stichacanthus tortworthensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ctenacanthus denticulatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II1
- A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks, with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils.Fasciculus 3, Mollusca and Palaeozoic fishes1
Each of the 2 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
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No picture of Ctenacanthus denticulatus 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 Ctenacanthus denticulatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ctenacanthus denticulatus 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 itCtenacanthus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. McCoy 1855