Saivodus

No picture of Saivodus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Saivodus itself, so it was not used. Wikidata 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 Saivodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 63 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 283.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 274.4 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 4 occurrencesPermian361–358 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences358–355 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences355–352 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences352–349 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences349–346 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences343–340 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences340–337 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences337–334 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences334–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences325–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences284–281 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–273 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences346.7 Mya283.3 Mya361 Mya273 Mya

4 occurrences of Saivodus 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

4 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

2 formations

Fort Payne — 34.88°N, 87.66°WKaibab — 35.10°N, 111.69°W

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The named rock units Saivodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Saivodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Saivodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

54 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Saivodus, 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 4 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No picture of Saivodus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Saivodus itself, so it was not used.

Wikidata 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 Saivodus, 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 itCtenacanthiformes through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Duffin and Ginter 2006