Ctenodonta

Searched as Ctenodonta lineata minutissima. The Paleobiology Database treats Ctenodonta as the accepted name.

Ctenodonta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CtenodontidaePBDB
Diet
deposit feeder, suspension feederPBDB
Life habit
infaunalPBDB
Motility
facultatively mobile, attachedPBDB
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia

Time the record covers

At most 2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 243.43 Mya and 241.464 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiddle Triassic243–243 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–243 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–242 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences243.93 Mya240.96 Mya

1 occurrence of Ctenodonta on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

1 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

1 formation

Reiflingerkalk — 47.09°N, 17.91°E

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The named rock units Ctenodonta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Ctenodonta and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Ctenodonta and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

2,538 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 343 sites for Ctenodonta, and this reads 240 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 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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

Media content1

Picture of Ctenodonta

Source
iDigBio
Credit
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Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Ctenodonta 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 itCtenodontidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Salter 1852