Petalodus ohioensis

Petalodus ohioensis

Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
PetalodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Petalodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Petalodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Petalodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 30 million years on record.

The record covers at least 307 Mya to 276.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 264.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 10 of 11 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 11 occurrencesPermian316–314 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 1 occurrence306–304 Mya — about 4 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 2 occurrences302–301 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences301–299 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307 Mya276.8 Mya316 Mya264 Mya

11 occurrences of Petalodus ohioensis 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

11 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

6 formations

Glenshaw — 40.43°N, 79.30°WGlenshaw — 40.38°N, 79.75°WForaker Limestone — 39.27°N, 96.44°WNaco — 34.33°N, 111.12°WGray Mesa — 34.10°N, 106.80°WCorona — 46.52°N, 13.31°EAltamont Limestone — 37.04°N, 95.53°W

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The named rock units Petalodus ohioensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Petalodus ohioensis and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Petalodus ohioensis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

122 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Petalodus ohioensis, 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

9 references

Each of the 11 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 Petalodus ohioensis

Source
GBIF
Credit
Collector(s): Spencer G. Lucas
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Petalodus ohioensis 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 itPetalodus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Safford 1853