Anomotodon

Anomotodon is an extinct genus of shark related to the extant goblin shark. The distribution of Anomotodon fossils is worldwide, in formations indicating that members of the genus lived from the Early Cretaceous epoch through the Eocene epoch, and perhaps through the Oligocene as well. Described species include A. novus, A. plicatus, A. principalis, and A. multidenticula.

Anomotodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MitsukurinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 90 million years on record.

The record covers at least 113.2 Mya to 23.04 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 15.98 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 120 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 120 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 54 of 120 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 120 occurrencesEocene — about 40 of 120 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 120 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 120 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–132 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences132–128 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences124–119 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 2 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 2 occurrences110–106 Mya — about 4 occurrences106–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 3 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–88 Mya — about 2 occurrences88–84 Mya — about 4 occurrences84–80 Mya — about 10 occurrences80–75 Mya — about 10 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 10 occurrences71–66 Mya — about 10 occurrences66–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 8 occurrences58–53 Mya — about 11 occurrences53–49 Mya — about 10 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 8 occurrences44–40 Mya — about 8 occurrences40–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–18 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences18–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113.2 Mya23.04 Mya146 Mya13 Mya

120 occurrences of Anomotodon 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

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

43 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.83°N, 1.25°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°ENewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.88°N, 0.81°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.67°N, 1.10°WGerhartsreit — 47.94°N, 13.01°EDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WMishash — 30.87°N, 34.94°EMishash — 30.83°N, 35.08°EMishash — 30.77°N, 34.91°ELandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°ESables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WArgiles d'Lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EGehannam — 29.31°N, 30.18°ETallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WHiraiga — 39.94°N, 141.94°EHiraiga — 39.64°N, 141.95°EHunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WVitoria — 42.83°N, 2.73°WWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WCastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WTuscahoma — 32.35°N, 88.68°WBashi — 32.35°N, 88.68°WTrent — 35.07°N, 77.15°WAquia — 40.35°N, 74.25°WLoreto — 53.14°S, 71.06°W

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The named rock units Anomotodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Anomotodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

1,213 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 113 sites for Anomotodon, 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

52 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. 40 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 Anomotodon

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Anomotodon 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1952