Dicentrodus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DiplodoselachidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Xenacanthiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Xenacanthiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Xenacanthiformes

Time the record covers

At least 4.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 3 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences303.7 Mya – 298.9 Mya308 Mya251 Mya

3 occurrences of Dicentrodus 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

3 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

3 formations

Oscar — 34.17°N, 97.99°WGarber Sandstone — 34.58°N, 98.85°WMattoon — 38.44°N, 87.86°W

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

Dicentrodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Dicentrodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

38 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dicentrodus, 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

3 references

Each of the 3 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Dicentrodus 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 itDiplodoselachidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Traquair 1888