Apomesodon gibbosus

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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ApomesodonPBDB
- Diet
- durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Time the record covers
At most 4.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 149.2 Mya and 145.06 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Apomesodon gibbosus on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. 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 Jurassic100%
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
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The named rock units Apomesodon gibbosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Apomesodon gibbosus and its relatives
Late JurassicWhere Apomesodon gibbosus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.
Found in the same rock
94 taxa- Actea sphinx1 site
- Aeschnogomphus buchi1 site
- Aeschnogomphus intermedius1 site
- Amarodes pseudozabrus1 site
- Anisophlebia helle1 site
- Apiaria oppenheimi1 site
- Apocrita1 site
- Archaeogracilidens macer1 site
- Archotaulius bavaricus1 site
- Brunetaeschnidium1 site
- Carabicina decipiens1 site
- Cerambycinus dubius1 site
- Chresmoda obscura1 site
- Conexicoxa tripartita1 site
- Corydalus vetustus1 site
- Curculionites striatus1 site
- Cymatophlebia longialata1 site
- Cyrtophyllites rogeri1 site
- Ditomoptera dubia1 site
- Elcana lithophila1 site
- Ensifera1 site
- Eocicada microcephala1 site
- Eumorbaeschna jurassica1 site
- Euphaeopsis multinervis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Apomesodon gibbosus, 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Apomesodon gibbosus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- via GBIF
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Apomesodon gibbosus 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 itApomesodon through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wagner 1851)