Cylindracanthus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AcanthopterygiiPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 85 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 13 of 85 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 85 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 67 of 85 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 85 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 0 of 85 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 85 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 85 occurrences102–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 1 occurrence96–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–75 Mya — about 2 occurrences75–72 Mya — about 2 occurrences72–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 6 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 6 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 14 occurrences45–41 Mya — about 15 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 16 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 8 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–24 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–7.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.4–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences4.0–622 ka Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya27.3 Mya102 Mya622 ka

85 occurrences of Cylindracanthus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

85 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

43 formations

Tallahatta — 31.38°N, 86.67°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.57°N, 88.34°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 88.46°WYazoo — 32.07°N, 88.96°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WArgile des Flandres — 50.84°N, 4.25°EArgile des Flandres — 50.85°N, 4.37°EArgile des Flandres — 50.75°N, 3.62°ECastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WCastle Hayne — 35.11°N, 77.29°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.90°N, 90.19°WTar Heel — 34.57°N, 78.50°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WIlaro — 6.70°N, 3.23°EAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°EShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WNanjemoy — 38.07°N, 77.03°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EAridal — 25.09°N, 13.89°WAridal — 25.44°N, 13.72°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WLisbon — 31.75°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WRed Bluff Clay — 31.37°N, 87.48°WBlue Bluff — 33.14°N, 81.76°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WOrizzonte di Roncà — 45.81°N, 11.29°EMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WGosport — 31.50°N, 87.90°W

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The named rock units Cylindracanthus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cylindracanthus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Cylindracanthus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,676 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Cylindracanthus, 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

56 references

Each of the 85 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. 44 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 content0

No picture of Cylindracanthus 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 Cylindracanthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cylindracanthus 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 itAcanthopterygii through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1856