Dicentrodus belemnoides
No picture of Dicentrodus belemnoides 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 belemnoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DicentrodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Xenacanthiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Xenacanthiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Xenacanthiformes
Time the record covers
At most 56 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 307 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Dicentrodus belemnoides 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- Carboniferous50%
- Permian50%
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
2 formations
- Oscar Formation1
- Garber Sandstone Formation · Sumner Group1
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The named rock units Dicentrodus belemnoides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dicentrodus belemnoides and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Dicentrodus belemnoides and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
20 taxa- Acheloma1 site
- Archeria1 site
- Barbclabornia1 site
- Captorhinus1 site
- Captorhinus aguti1 site
- Cardiocephalus sternbergi1 site
- Chondrichtyan indet.1 site
- Diadectes1 site
- Dimetrodon limbatus1 site
- Diplocaulus1 site
- Edaphosaurus pogonias1 site
- Eryops megacephalus1 site
- Helodus1 site
- Ophiacodon retroversus1 site
- Orthacanthus1 site
- Orthacanthus platypternus1 site
- Orthacanthus texensis1 site
- Platyacanthus1 site
- Sagenodus porrectus1 site
- Trimerorhachis insignis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Dicentrodus belemnoides, 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- New Specimens of Xenacanth and Hybodont Sharks (Elasmobranchii: Xenacanthida and Hybodontoidea) from the Lower Permian of Southwestern Oklahoma1
- New Chondrichtyan spines from the Late Paleozoic of Oklahoma1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dicentrodus belemnoides 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 belemnoides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dicentrodus belemnoides was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itDicentrodus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zidek 1978)