Stethacanthulus decorus

No picture of Stethacanthulus decorus 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 Stethacanthulus decorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
StethacanthulusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Symmoriiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Symmoriiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Symmoriiformes

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 293.52 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 298.9 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPermian — about 16 of 16 occurrencesPermian300–298 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences294–292 Mya — about 1 occurrence292–291 Mya — about 1 occurrence291–290 Mya — about 1 occurrence276–274 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 1 occurrence273–272 Mya — about 1 occurrence272–271 Mya — about 1 occurrence271–270 Mya — about 1 occurrence270–268 Mya — about 1 occurrence268–267 Mya — about 1 occurrence267–266 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences266–265 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences265–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293.52 Mya266.9 Mya299.6 Mya263.6 Mya

16 occurrences of Stethacanthulus decorus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

16 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

Cutoff — 31.82°N, 104.83°WCherry Canyon — 31.87°N, 104.84°WBrushy Canyon — 31.84°N, 104.86°W

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The named rock units Stethacanthulus decorus 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.

Stethacanthulus decorus and its relatives

Permian

Where Stethacanthulus decorus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

32 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 16 sites for Stethacanthulus decorus, 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 16 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

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No picture of Stethacanthulus decorus 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 Stethacanthulus decorus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Stethacanthulus decorus 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 itStethacanthulus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Ivanov 1999)