Sandalodus

Sandalodus is an extinct genus of cartilaginous fish from the Late Devonian, Carboniferous and Permian periods. It was named by John Strong Newberry and Amos Henry Worthen in 1866. Charles Eastman classified the genus as a member of Cochliodontidae in 1903, which has been followed by subsequent authors. Some species of the genus have been found to belong to the same animal as Deltodus, and the genus' validity has been questioned.

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CochliodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 342.9 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 3 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 2 of 5 occurrencesPermian361–358 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences358–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences348–345 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences345–342 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences342–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–332 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences326–322 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences322–319 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences319–316 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences316–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–310 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–303 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–297 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences297–294 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences294–291 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences275–271 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences271–268 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences268–265 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences342.9 Mya274.4 Mya361 Mya265 Mya

5 occurrences of Sandalodus 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

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

Ramp Creek — 39.33°N, 86.67°WGrenola — 38.95°N, 96.40°WAkasaka — 35.40°N, 136.58°E

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The named rock units Sandalodus 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.

Sandalodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Sandalodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

45 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Sandalodus, 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

4 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Sandalodus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Sandalodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCochliodontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newberry and Worthen 1866