Astroconodon denisoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AstroconodonPBDB
- Diet
- piscivorePBDB, for Astroconodon
- Life habit
- amphibiousPBDB, for Astroconodon
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- brackishPBDB, for Astroconodon
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 119.57 Mya and 100.5 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Astroconodon denisoni on record, most of them in the Early 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
8 occurrences- Early 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
3 formations
- Antlers Formation · Trinity Group4
- Paluxy Formation · Trinity Group3
- Twin Mountains Formation · Trinity Group1
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The named rock units Astroconodon denisoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Astroconodon denisoni and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Astroconodon denisoni and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
83 taxa- Lepidotes5 sites
- Bernissartia4 sites
- Holoclemensia texana4 sites
- Lacertilia4 sites
- Meristodonoides butleri4 sites
- Prosiren elinorae4 sites
- Tenontosaurus4 sites
- Theropoda4 sites
- Albanerpeton arthridion3 sites
- Anura3 sites
- Kermackia texana3 sites
- Lioestheria3 sites
- Lonchidion anitae3 sites
- Macrepistius3 sites
- Melvius3 sites
- Naomichelys3 sites
- Pappotherium pattersoni3 sites
- Paracimexomys3 sites
- Amiidae2 sites
- Anguidae2 sites
- Callodus coronatus2 sites
- Deinonychus antirrhopus2 sites
- Discoglossidae2 sites
- Dromaeosauridae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Astroconodon denisoni, 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
3 references- Mammals, archosaurs, and the Early to Late Cretaceous terrestrial transition in north-central Texas3
- Astroconodon, the Cretaceous Triconodont3
- Additions to the vertebrate fauna of the Antlers Formation (Lower Cretaceous), southeastern Oklahoma2
Each of the 8 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. 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 content0
No picture of Astroconodon denisoni was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Astroconodon denisoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 itAstroconodon through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Patterson 1951