Acanthomorphata

Acanthomorphata

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CtenosquamataPBDB
Diet
omnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 120 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 86 of 120 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 19 of 120 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 120 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 2 of 120 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 2 of 120 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 120 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 13 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 11 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 2 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 2 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 13 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 25 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 24 occurrences63–59 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences59–56 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences56–52 Mya — about 4 occurrences52–48 Mya — about 4 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences41–37 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences37–33 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences33–29 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences29–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–22 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–14 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences11–6.9 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences6.9–3.2 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences93.9 Mya7.246 Mya115 Mya3 Mya

120 occurrences of Acanthomorphata on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

120 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

27 formations

Hell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.60°N, 107.00°WFort Union — 47.58°N, 107.05°WZig Zag Chalk — 50.86°N, 0.07°EZig Zag Chalk — 50.90°N, 0.15°WZig Zag Chalk — 50.86°N, 0.55°WZig Zag Chalk — 51.24°N, 0.34°WZig Zag Chalk — 51.33°N, 0.49°EZig Zag Chalk — 50.87°N, 0.00°ELance — 43.15°N, 104.57°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.51°WDinosaur Park — 50.75°N, 111.40°WDinosaur Park — 50.81°N, 111.63°WDinosaur Park — 50.78°N, 111.33°WMilk River — 49.10°N, 111.80°WAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WRavenscrag — 49.60°N, 108.70°WHorseshoe Canyon — 52.00°N, 112.88°WScollard — 51.91°N, 112.97°WDanata — 38.61°N, 56.88°ENiobrara — 43.41°N, 103.31°WNiobrara — 38.79°N, 100.76°WEl Doctor — 20.75°N, 99.34°WStraight Cliffs — 35.57°N, 112.86°WStraight Cliffs — 37.62°N, 112.16°WHolleywell, New Pit, Lewes — 51.30°N, 0.39°ESaldeño — 34.30°S, 69.72°WSaldeño — 33.93°S, 69.58°WGreen River — 42.13°N, 110.13°WGreen River — 42.17°N, 109.42°WHolywell Nodular Chalk — 51.25°N, 0.15°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WKokoamu Greensand — 44.97°S, 170.98°EPabdeh — 35.60°N, 47.42°EPshekha Horizon — 44.74°N, 39.81°EValdenoceda — 42.90°N, 3.30°WSannine Limestone — 34.13°N, 35.75°E

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The named rock units Acanthomorphata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Acanthomorphata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Acanthomorphata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,132 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 75 sites for Acanthomorphata, 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

42 references

Each of the 120 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. 30 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 Acanthomorphata

Credit
User:Haplochromis
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itCtenosquamata through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Rosen 1973)