Ichthyodectes ctenodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IchthyodectesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Ichthyodectiformes
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya.
13 occurrences of Ichthyodectes ctenodon 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
13 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
7 formations
- Pierre Shale Formation2
- Kaskapau Formation · Smoky Group2
- Niobrara Formation2
- Belle Fourche Formation · Colorado Group1
- Ashville Formation1
- Mooreville Chalk Formation · Selma Group1
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The named rock units Ichthyodectes ctenodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ichthyodectes ctenodon and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ichthyodectes ctenodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
114 taxa- Enchodus shumardi5 sites
- Squalicorax falcatus5 sites
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli4 sites
- Enchodus4 sites
- Enchodus gladiolus4 sites
- Enchodus petrosus4 sites
- Pachyrhizodus minimus4 sites
- Protosphyraena4 sites
- Squalicorax4 sites
- Xiphactinus audax4 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis3 sites
- Cimolichthys nepaholica3 sites
- Hesperornithiformes3 sites
- Pachyrhizodus caninus3 sites
- Ptychodus3 sites
- Ptychodus anonymus3 sites
- Pycnodontidae3 sites
- Rhinobatos incertus3 sites
- Squalicorax pawpawensis3 sites
- Teleostei3 sites
- Acanthomorphata2 sites
- Belonostomus2 sites
- Carcharias2 sites
- Coniasaurus crassidens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Ichthyodectes ctenodon, 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
10 references- Cenomanian bonebed faunas from the northeastern margin, Western Interior Seaway2
- Fossil marine actinopterygian fishes from the Kaskapau Formation (Upper Cretaceous: Turonian) near Watino, Alberta2
- Fossil vertebrates from the marine Cretaceous of Manitoba2
- Fossil vertebrates from a unique marine bonebed of the Upper Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk, western Kansas, U.S.A.: new insights into the paleoecology of the Niobrara Formation1
- Late Cretaceous marine vertebrate fauna from the Fairport Chalk Member of the Carlile Shale in southern Ellis County, Kansas, U.S.A.1
- An associated dentition and calcified vertebral centra of the Late Cretaceous elasmobranch, Ptychodus anonymus Williston 19001
- Vertebrate fossils, including non-avian dinosaur remains and the first shark-bitten bird bone, from a Late Cretaceous (Turonian) marine deposit of northeastern South Dakota1
- A Late Cretaceous (Turonian) ichthyofauna from Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada, with paleobiogeographic comparisons with Turonian ichthyofaunas of the Western Interior Seaway1
- The vertebrate fauna of the Selma Formation of Alabama, part VIII, the fishes1
- Ichthyodectes and Holcolepis from the Cretaceous of Lac des Bois, Northwest Territories, Canada1
Each of the 13 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
Photogrammetry
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
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- Specimen
- Ichthyodectes ctenodon · UCM:Paleontology:UCM:FossilVert:20560
No picture of Ichthyodectes ctenodon 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 Ichthyodectes ctenodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itIchthyodectes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1870