Enchodus ferox

Enchodus ferox

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
EnchodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Enchodontidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 56 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 20 of 21 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 21 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 21 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 2 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences83.6 Mya59.24 Mya86.3 Mya55.4 Mya

21 occurrences of Enchodus ferox 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

21 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

11 formations

Mount Laurel — 40.12°N, 74.55°WMount Laurel — 40.26°N, 74.27°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WNavesink — 39.76°N, 75.13°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.41°N, 100.86°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WTakli — 21.15°N, 79.10°ESevern — 38.96°N, 76.71°WLopez de Bertodano — 64.28°S, 56.75°WJagüel — 39.72°S, 66.67°WArkadelphia — 34.38°N, 92.85°W

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Enchodus ferox has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Enchodus ferox and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

520 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Enchodus ferox, 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

18 references

Each of the 21 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. 6 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 content1

Picture of Enchodus ferox

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEnchodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1855