Hercodon
No picture of Hercodon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hercodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TellininaePBDB
- Diet
- deposit feederPBDB, for Tellinidae
- Life habit
- infaunalPBDB, for Tellinidae
- Motility
- facultatively mobilePBDB, for Tellinidae
- Vision
- blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Hercodon 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
1 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.
Found in
1 formation
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The named rock units Hercodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Hercodon and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hercodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- ? Belgorodon sp.1 site
- Amphidonte1 site
- Cerebavis cenomanica1 site
- Chelonioidea1 site
- Chimaeridae1 site
- Chlamys1 site
- Corbulamella1 site
- Cranocardium constantii1 site
- Cranocardium ventricosum1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cretoxyrhina denticulata1 site
- Edaphodon sedgwicki1 site
- Elasmodectes1 site
- Elasmodus sinzovi1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Enchodontidae1 site
- Entonium orbicularus1 site
- Eostriatolamia subulata1 site
- Flaventia1 site
- Ischyodus latus1 site
- Jerea1 site
- Lamniformes1 site
- Leptostyrax macrorhiza1 site
- Lingula1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Hercodon, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Hercodon was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Hercodon, 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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What may have been alongside itTellininae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.