Sphyraenodus

Sphyraenodus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScombroideiPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 34 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 34 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 24 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 34 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 5 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 1 occurrence36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–13 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–8.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.6–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–4.0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences66 Mya13.82 Mya74 Mya4 Mya

34 occurrences of Sphyraenodus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

34 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

15 formations

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WKirkwood — 39.30°N, 75.20°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°EDry Branch — 33.12°N, 81.70°WDry Branch — 33.58°N, 81.43°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WPietra Leccese — 40.35°N, 18.17°ELibano Sandstone — 46.14°N, 12.22°ELangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°ETakli — 21.35°N, 78.99°EArgile des Flandres — 50.85°N, 4.37°EAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°ETupelo Bay — 33.24°N, 80.44°W

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The named rock units Sphyraenodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphyraenodus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Sphyraenodus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,144 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Sphyraenodus, 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

22 references

Each of the 34 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. 10 further references are not listed. 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 Sphyraenodus

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CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sphyraenodus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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.

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What may have been alongside itScombroidei through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1839