Enchodus

Enchodus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
EnchodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Enchodontidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Length
1.5 mWikidata

Time the record covers

At least 141 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 20.45 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 317 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 317 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 5 of 317 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 302 of 317 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 317 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 317 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 317 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 317 occurrences168–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–117 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences117–111 Mya — about 1 occurrence111–106 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences106–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–96 Mya — about 42 occurrences96–91 Mya — about 46 occurrences91–85 Mya — about 22 occurrences85–80 Mya — about 46 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 38 occurrences75–70 Mya — about 53 occurrences70–65 Mya — about 56 occurrences65–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–18 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences161.5 Mya20.45 Mya168 Mya13 Mya

317 occurrences of Enchodus 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

317 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

98 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.00°N, 98.92°WGreenhorn Limestone — 44.65°N, 103.58°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.69°N, 103.94°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.74°N, 97.65°WGreenhorn Limestone — 42.64°N, 96.53°WGreenhorn Limestone — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.87°N, 98.51°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.94°N, 98.80°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.74°N, 99.04°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.92°N, 98.90°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.65°N, 103.93°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.38°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.26°N, 100.55°WFox Hills — 46.28°N, 100.52°WFox Hills — 46.11°N, 103.90°WFox Hills — 46.10°N, 100.42°WFox Hills — 46.30°N, 100.33°WFox Hills — 46.42°N, 100.74°WFox Hills — 46.41°N, 100.86°WFox Hills — 44.52°N, 102.39°WCarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 38.72°N, 99.32°WCarlile Shale — 39.04°N, 99.07°WMooreville Chalk — 32.94°N, 88.06°WMooreville Chalk — 32.95°N, 88.08°WMooreville Chalk — 31.91°N, 87.87°WMooreville Chalk — 32.44°N, 87.24°WMooreville Chalk — 32.76°N, 88.02°WNiobrara — 43.41°N, 103.31°WNiobrara — 39.06°N, 99.23°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WNiobrara — 38.80°N, 100.19°WAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EAhlen — 51.86°N, 7.74°EGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.32°WDinosaur Park — 50.68°N, 108.09°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.36°WPierre Shale — 38.90°N, 101.13°WPierre Shale — 43.22°N, 103.45°WPierre Shale — 43.01°N, 103.30°WPierre Shale — 39.01°N, 101.37°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WNavesink — 39.95°N, 74.79°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WPierre Shale — 49.33°N, 98.31°WPierre Shale — 51.96°N, 101.25°WMount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WRybushka — 51.23°N, 45.10°EZig Zag Chalk — 51.33°N, 0.49°EZig Zag Chalk — 50.86°N, 0.07°EZig Zag Chalk — 50.90°N, 0.15°WMaastricht — 50.84°N, 5.79°EMaastricht — 50.82°N, 5.68°EMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WDemopolis Chalk — 32.27°N, 87.50°WDemopolis Chalk — 32.67°N, 88.11°WDemopolis Chalk — 33.52°N, 88.78°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 86.35°WEutaw — 33.52°N, 88.40°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WMishash — 30.67°N, 35.08°EMishash — 30.62°N, 35.12°ECintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WJagüel — 39.72°S, 66.67°WArkadelphia — 34.38°N, 92.85°W

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The named rock units Enchodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 74 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 70 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Enchodus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Enchodus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

2,066 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 244 sites for Enchodus, and this reads 240 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

167 references

Each of the 317 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. 155 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Enchodus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
Free Standard
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1835)