Helicoprion davisii
No picture of Helicoprion davisii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Helicoprion davisii itself, so it was not used. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Helicoprion davisii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelicoprionPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Eugeneodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Eugeneodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Eugeneodontiformes
Time the record covers
At least 8.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 283.3 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 266.9 Mya.
17 occurrences of Helicoprion davisii on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
17 occurrences- Permian100%
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
10 formations
- Phosphoria Formation8
- Assistance Formation1
- Bone Spring Formation1
- Patlanoaya Formation1
- Wandagee Formation1
- Goodhue Greenstone Formation1
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The named rock units Helicoprion davisii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helicoprion davisii and its relatives
PermianWhere Helicoprion davisii and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Ananias nevadensis1 site
- Antronaria titania1 site
- Antronaria voluminosa1 site
- Composita discina1 site
- Daubichites fortieri1 site
- Enteletes rotundobesus1 site
- Helicoprion ergassaminon1 site
- Limbella limbata1 site
- Palaeoneilo mcchesneyana1 site
- Permophorus1 site
- Scacchinella titan1 site
- Septimyalina burmai1 site
- Spyridiophora reticulata1 site
- Stenolobulites simulator1 site
- Stenoscisma hadrum1 site
- Stenoscisma problematicum1 site
- Sverdrupites amundseni1 site
- Waagenella lineatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Helicoprion davisii, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
8 references- Unraveling species concepts for the Helicoprion tooth whorl9
- New investigations on Helicoprion from the Phosphoria Formation of South-east Idaho, USA2
- The first record of Helicoprion Karpinsky (Helicoprionidae) from China1
- Helicoprion (Edestidae) in the Permian of West Texas1
- Helicoprion in the Permian of Western Australia1
- Helicoprion in the Anthracolithic (Late Paleozoic) of Nevada and California, and its stratigraphic significance1
- On the nature of Edestus and related genera, with descriptions of one new genus and three new species1
- A new genus and species of fossil shark related to Edestus Leidy1
Each of the 17 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 content0
No picture of Helicoprion davisii was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Helicoprion davisii itself, so it was not used.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Helicoprion davisii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helicoprion davisii 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 itHelicoprion through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Woodward 1886)