Anomoeodus
Searched as Anomoeodus pauciseriale. The Paleobiology Database treats Anomoeodus as the accepted name.

Bussen, J.P. · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PycnodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Anomoeodus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
- Holleywell, New Pit, Lewes Formation · White Chalk Group1
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The named rock units Anomoeodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Anomoeodus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Anomoeodus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
996 taxa- Squalicorax kaupi21 sites
- Ischyrhiza mira20 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata19 sites
- Hybodus19 sites
- Scapanorhynchus texanus16 sites
- Squalicorax pristodontus16 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis15 sites
- Hadrosauridae14 sites
- Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis12 sites
- Squatina (Cretascyllium) hassei12 sites
- Crocodylia11 sites
- Enchodus11 sites
- Paralbula casei11 sites
- Protolamna borodini11 sites
- Rhombodus levis11 sites
- Stephanodus11 sites
- Carcharias samhammeri10 sites
- Mosasauridae10 sites
- Enchodus ferox9 sites
- Enchodus petrosus9 sites
- Ischyodus bifurcatus9 sites
- Prognathodon9 sites
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli8 sites
- Heterodontus8 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Anomoeodus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1

Picture of Anomoeodus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Bussen, J.P.
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Anomoeodus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPycnodontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Forir 1887