Celtedens megacephalus

No picture of Celtedens megacephalus 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 Celtedens megacephalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CeltedensPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Life habit
amphibiousPBDB, for Temnospondyli
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Temnospondyli
Environment
brackish,freshwater,terrestrialPBDB, for Tetrapoda

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 139.1 Mya to 113.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 110.1 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 4 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous144–143 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences143–141 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences141–140 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences140–139 Mya — about 1 occurrence139–138 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences113–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences139.1 Mya113.2 Mya143.8 Mya109.4 Mya

4 occurrences of Celtedens megacephalus 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

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

1 formation

Lulworth — 50.60°N, 1.97°W

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The named rock units Celtedens megacephalus 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.

Celtedens megacephalus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Celtedens megacephalus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

81 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Celtedens megacephalus, 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

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

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No picture of Celtedens megacephalus 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 Celtedens megacephalus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Celtedens megacephalus 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 itCeltedens through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Costa 1864)