Ceratodus protopteroides
No picture of Ceratodus protopteroides 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 Ceratodus protopteroides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CeratodusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi
Time the record covers
At most 50 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 143.1 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Ceratodus protopteroides 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
2 occurrencesThese 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
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The named rock units Ceratodus protopteroides has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ceratodus protopteroides and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Ceratodus protopteroides and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
21 taxa- Adrianaichthys sp.1 site
- Araripemydidae1 site
- Arganodus tiguidiensis1 site
- Bawitius1 site
- Calamopleurus africanus1 site
- Carcharodontosaurus1 site
- Ceratodus humei1 site
- Ceratodus tuberculatus1 site
- cf. Lavocatodus humei1 site
- Coelurosauria1 site
- Distobatidae1 site
- Elosuchus broinae1 site
- Hamadasuchus rebouli1 site
- Mawsoniidae1 site
- Neoceratodus africanus1 site
- Obaichthys africanus1 site
- Onchopristis numidus1 site
- Pleurodira1 site
- Spinosaurus aegyptiacus1 site
- Titanosauriformes1 site
- Tribodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Ceratodus protopteroides, 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
2 references- Le Crétacé continental à vertébrés de la bordure sud du plateau de Tinhert: découvertes paléontologiques et considérations stratigraphiques [The continental Cretaceous vertebrates of the southern border of the Tinhert Plateau: paleontological discoveries and stratigraphic considerations]1
- Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Ceratodus protopteroides 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 Ceratodus protopteroides, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ceratodus protopteroides 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 itCeratodus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tabaste 1963