Triodon antiquus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- TriodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Tetraodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Tetraodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Tetraodontiformes
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
8 occurrences of Triodon antiquus 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
5 formations
- Argile des Flandres Formation2
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Barton Clay Formation1
- Nanjemoy Formation · Pamunkey Group1
- London Clay Formation · Thames Group1
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The named rock units Triodon antiquus 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.
Triodon antiquus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Triodon antiquus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
432 taxa- Cylindracanthus rectus7 sites
- Albula oweni5 sites
- Palaeocybium proosti5 sites
- Pycnodus5 sites
- Eotrigonodon serratus4 sites
- Sphyraenodus lerichei4 sites
- Arius3 sites
- Eutrichiurides winkleri3 sites
- Phyllodus toliapicus3 sites
- Scomberomorus stormsi3 sites
- Trichiurides sagittidens3 sites
- Acipenser toliapicus2 sites
- Aetobatus2 sites
- Aglyptorhynchus sulcatus2 sites
- Brychaetus muelleri2 sites
- Carcharhinus2 sites
- Carcharias acutissimus2 sites
- Cybium2 sites
- Cybium bleekeri2 sites
- Edaphodon leptognathus2 sites
- Egertonia2 sites
- Eosolea bartonensis2 sites
- Osmeroides insignis2 sites
- Ostracion clavatus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Triodon antiquus, 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
5 references- La faune ichthyologique de l'Ypresien de la Belgique4
- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstatten1
- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)1
- Teleost fish remains (Osteoglossidae, Blochiidae, Scombridae, Triodontidae, Diodontidae) from the Lower Eocene Nanjemoy Formation of Maryland1
- Faunal Horizons of the Barton Beds in Hampshire1
Each of the 8 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 content0
No picture of Triodon antiquus 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 Triodon antiquus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Triodon antiquus 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 itTriodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leriche 1905