Deltodus

Deltodus

G. Billingsley · 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
CochliodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 76 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 16 of 25 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 25 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 1 occurrence321–318 Mya — about 2 occurrences318–315 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences315–312 Mya — about 2 occurrences312–308 Mya — about 1 occurrence308–305 Mya — about 3 occurrences305–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences289–285 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences285–282 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences282–279 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences276–272 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences272–269 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 3 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 3 occurrences342.9 Mya266.9 Mya361 Mya262 Mya

25 occurrences of Deltodus 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

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

Khuff — 20.86°N, 57.60°EKhuff — 21.01°N, 57.67°EWatahomigi — 36.01°N, 113.84°WWatahomigi — 35.80°N, 113.60°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.38°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°WNaco — 34.33°N, 111.12°WPhosphoria — 43.19°N, 109.16°WPhosphoria — 42.67°N, 108.68°WAltamont Limestone — 37.04°N, 95.53°WKeokuk Limestone — 40.41°N, 91.40°WBurlington — 40.81°N, 91.11°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WAbo — 34.64°N, 107.18°W

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The named rock units Deltodus 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.

Deltodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Deltodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

226 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 24 sites for Deltodus, 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

14 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. 2 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 content2

Picture of Deltodus

Source
GBIF
Credit
G. Billingsley
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCochliodontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morris and Roberts 1862