Amelacanthus sulcatus

Amelacanthus sulcatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AmelacanthusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 56 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 1 of 5 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 4 of 5 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–351 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences351–348 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences348–344 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences344–341 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences341–338 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences338–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–331 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences331–328 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences269–266 Mya — about 2 occurrences266–262 Mya — about 2 occurrences323.4 Mya266.9 Mya361 Mya262 Mya

5 occurrences of Amelacanthus sulcatus 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

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

1 formation

Khuff — 21.01°N, 57.67°E

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The named rock units Amelacanthus sulcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Amelacanthus sulcatus and its relatives

Permian

Where Amelacanthus sulcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Amelacanthus sulcatus, 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

2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

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Picture of Amelacanthus sulcatus

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No 3D scan of Amelacanthus sulcatus 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 itAmelacanthus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1837)