Enchodus marchesettii

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 most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Enchodus marchesettii 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
4 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.
Enchodus marchesettii and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Enchodus marchesettii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Sardinioides minimus3 sites
- Acrognathus dodgei2 sites
- Anguillavus quadripinnis2 sites
- Benthesikyme serpentina2 sites
- Eubiodectes libanicus2 sites
- Hayenchelys germanus2 sites
- Ichthyotringa delicata2 sites
- Abisaadia hakelensis1 site
- Acanthochirana cenomanica1 site
- Aspidopleurus cataphractus1 site
- Carpopenaeus callirostris1 site
- Charitosomus hakelensis1 site
- Coccodus insignis1 site
- Cretacoranina syriacus1 site
- Cretodus semiplicatus1 site
- Ctenothrissa signifer1 site
- Ctenothrissa vexillifer1 site
- Dactylopogon parvulus1 site
- Davichthys gardneri1 site
- Enchelion montium1 site
- Eurypholis boissieri1 site
- Exocoetoides minor1 site
- Gebrayelichthys uyenoi1 site
- Holcolepis attenuatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Enchodus marchesettii, 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- On a collection of upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species2
- The relationships of certain Upper Cretaceous teleosts with special reference to the Myctophoids1
- Fosilne ribe Komena, Mrzleka, Hvara i M. Libanona uz dodatak o Oligocenskim ribama Tüffera, Zagora i Trifalja1
Each of the 4 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
Media content1

Picture of Enchodus marchesettii
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Enchodus marchesettii was found in Sketchfab.
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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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. (Gorjanović-Kramberger 1895)