Edaphadon mirificus
No picture of Edaphadon mirificus 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 Edaphadon mirificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EdaphadonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Edaphadon mirificus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- New Egypt Formation · Monmouth Group1
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The named rock units Edaphadon mirificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Edaphadon mirificus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Edaphadon mirificus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Agomphus pectoralis1 site
- Baculites ovatus1 site
- Belemnitella americana1 site
- Cucullaea vulgaris1 site
- Dryptosaurus aquilunguis1 site
- Euclastes wielandi1 site
- Hadrosauridae1 site
- Hadrosauromorpha1 site
- Hyposaurus natator1 site
- Lambeosaurinae1 site
- Leptomylus forfex1 site
- Mosasaurus dekayi1 site
- Mosasaurus hoffmannii1 site
- Osteopygis emarginatus1 site
- Prognathodon rapax1 site
- Russellosaurina1 site
- Taphrosphys nodosus1 site
- Taphrosphys sulcatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Edaphadon mirificus, 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- The complete dentition of Edaphodon mirificus (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) from a single individual1
Each of the 1 occurrence 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Edaphadon mirificus 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 Edaphadon mirificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Edaphadon mirificus 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 itEdaphadon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1856