Elasmodectes
No picture of Elasmodectes 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 Elasmodectes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ChimaeridaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Time the record covers
At least 48 million years on record.
The record covers at least 149.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 89.8 Mya.
3 occurrences of Elasmodectes on record. 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 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Elasmodectes 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.
Found in the same rock
50 taxa- Elasmosauridae2 sites
- ? Belgorodon sp.1 site
- Amphidonte1 site
- Cerebavis cenomanica1 site
- Chelone1 site
- Chelonioidea1 site
- Chimaeridae1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Cimoliasaurus1 site
- Corbulamella1 site
- Cranocardium constantii1 site
- Cranocardium ventricosum1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cretoxyrhina denticulata1 site
- Dolichosaurus longicollis1 site
- Edaphodon sedgwicki1 site
- Elasmodus sinzovi1 site
- Enchodontidae1 site
- Entonium orbicularus1 site
- Eostriatolamia subulata1 site
- Flaventia1 site
- Hercodon1 site
- Ischyodus latus1 site
- Jerea1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Elasmodectes, 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- Im Reich der Meerengel. Der Nusplinger Plattenkalk und seine Fossilien1
- On the brain of a primitive bird from the Upper Cretaceous of European Russia1
- A synopsis of the vertebrate fossils of the English Chalk1
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
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No picture of Elasmodectes 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 Elasmodectes, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elasmodectes 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.
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What may have been alongside itChimaeridae through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1888