Harpagofututor volsellorhinus

Harpagofututor is an extinct genus of eel-like cartilaginous fish from the Early Carboniferous (Mississippian). It is primarily known from complete specimens discovered in the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana, as well as an isolated tooth from Whitrope, Scotland.

Harpagofututor volsellorhinus

Mr Fink ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · 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
HarpagofututorPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Holocephali
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Holocephali
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Holocephali

Time the record covers

At most 3.3 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 326.9 Mya and 323.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 8 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferous327–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–327 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–326 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences326–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–325 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences325–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences324–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327.4 Mya323.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Harpagofututor volsellorhinus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

8 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

1 formation

Heath — 46.95°N, 108.96°WHeath — 46.95°N, 108.90°WHeath — 46.97°N, 109.04°W

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The named rock units Harpagofututor volsellorhinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Harpagofututor volsellorhinus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Harpagofututor volsellorhinus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

64 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Harpagofututor volsellorhinus, 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

2 references

Each of the 8 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 Harpagofututor volsellorhinus

Credit
Mr Fink ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Harpagofututor volsellorhinus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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What may have been alongside itHarpagofututor through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lund 1982