Enchodus gladiolus

No picture of Enchodus gladiolus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Enchodus gladiolus itself, so it was not used. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Enchodus gladiolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 21 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 35 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 35 of 35 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 35 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 3 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–82 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

35 occurrences of Enchodus gladiolus 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

35 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

14 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.69°N, 103.94°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°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°WCarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WNiobrara — 38.80°N, 100.19°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WRybushka — 51.23°N, 45.10°EJagüel — 39.72°S, 66.67°WDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°WArkadelphia — 34.38°N, 92.85°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.36°WGongila — 10.94°N, 11.45°E

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The named rock units Enchodus gladiolus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Enchodus gladiolus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

406 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 35 sites for Enchodus gladiolus, 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

31 references

Each of the 35 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. 19 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 content0

No picture of Enchodus gladiolus was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Enchodus gladiolus itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Enchodus gladiolus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1872