Heslerodus

No picture of Heslerodus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Heslerodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeslerodidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes

Time the record covers

At least 40 million years on record.

The record covers at least 315.2 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 323.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 15 of 23 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 8 of 23 occurrencesPermian325–323 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences323–321 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences321–319 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences319–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences317–315 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences315–313 Mya — about 2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–305 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences305–303 Mya — about 1 occurrence303–301 Mya — about 2 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315.2 Mya274.4 Mya325 Mya266 Mya

23 occurrences of Heslerodus 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

23 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

10 formations

Carbondale — 38.28°N, 87.17°WCarbondale — 41.18°N, 88.25°WLinton — 39.72°N, 87.32°WLinton — 39.79°N, 87.38°WAmes — 40.46°N, 79.71°WAmes — 40.04°N, 81.42°WAmes — 39.47°N, 82.06°WWreford Limestone — 39.33°N, 96.53°WKaibab — 35.10°N, 111.69°WWesterville — 41.14°N, 95.98°WStaunton — 39.85°N, 87.30°WVanport — 38.68°N, 82.69°WCutoff / Brushy Canyon — 31.83°N, 104.86°WCutoff — 31.98°N, 104.88°W

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The named rock units Heslerodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heslerodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Heslerodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

56 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Heslerodus, 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

8 references

Each of the 23 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 Heslerodus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Heslerodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heslerodus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itHeslerodidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ginter 2002