Cardabiodon

Cardabiodon

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
CardabiodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 4.1 million years on record.

The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 16 of 16 occurrencesLate Cretaceous101–100 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences100–100 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–99 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences98–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–97 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences94–94 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence93–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–91 Mya — about 1 occurrence91–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–88 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–84 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93.9 Mya89.8 Mya101 Mya83.1 Mya

16 occurrences of Cardabiodon 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

16 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

7 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.74°N, 97.65°WGreenhorn Limestone — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.92°N, 98.90°WKaskapau — 55.71°N, 117.60°WCarlile Shale — 38.72°N, 99.32°WCarlile Shale — 47.01°N, 107.87°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGearle Siltstone — 22.89°S, 114.14°EToolonga Calcilutite — 27.59°S, 114.23°EDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°W

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The named rock units Cardabiodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cardabiodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

91 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Cardabiodon, 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

12 references

Each of the 16 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 content1

Picture of Cardabiodon

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 Cardabiodon 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 itCardabiodontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Siverson 1999