Bythiacanthus

No picture of Bythiacanthus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bythiacanthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CtenacanthidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes

Time the record covers

At most 12 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 315.2 Mya and 303.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesCarboniferous315–315 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–313 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences313–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences312–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–311 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences311–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–310 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences310–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–309 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences309–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–308 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences308–307 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences315.7 Mya303.2 Mya

4 occurrences of Bythiacanthus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

4 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

2 formations

Minturn — 39.91°N, 106.75°WAltamont Limestone — 37.04°N, 95.53°W

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The named rock units Bythiacanthus 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.

Bythiacanthus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Bythiacanthus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

13 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Bythiacanthus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 4 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 Bythiacanthus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Bythiacanthus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Bythiacanthus 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 itCtenacanthidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. StJohn and Worthen 1875