Echiodon pegasus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EchiodonPBDB
Diet
carnivore, parasitePBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Ophidiiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ophidiiformes

Time the record covers

At least 18 million years on record.

The record covers at least 25.2 Mya to 7.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Oligocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 2 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–26 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.1–6.4 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.4–5.6 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences5.6–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences25.2 Mya7.2 Mya27.8 Mya4.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Echiodon pegasus on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

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

Double Corner Shellbed — 43.11°S, 172.78°E

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The named rock units Echiodon pegasus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Echiodon pegasus and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Echiodon pegasus and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Echiodon pegasus, 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

1 reference

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 Echiodon pegasus 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 Echiodon pegasus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Echiodon pegasus 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 itEchiodon through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Markle and Olney 1990