Hypsodon

A picture published with the record for Hypsodon. What it shows has not been checked.

Smithsonian Institution · CC0 · via Smithsonian. 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
ElopidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 6.2 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 5 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences91–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences83–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–79 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences79–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–75 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences75–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89.8 Mya83.6 Mya101.1 Mya71.6 Mya

5 occurrences of Hypsodon 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

5 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

3 formations

Mancos Shale — 40.76°N, 108.89°WConway — 42.58°S, 173.49°EHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°E

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

Hypsodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Hypsodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

133 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Hypsodon, 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

Each of the 5 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 Hypsodon

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hypsodon was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itElopidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1837