Cobelodus

No picture of Cobelodus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cobelodus itself, so it was not used. Wikidata and 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 Cobelodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SymmoriidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Symmoriiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Symmoriiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Symmoriiformes

Time the record covers

At least 33 million years on record.

The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 290.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 335.4 Mya to 283.3 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 3 of 6 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 6 occurrencesPermian336–335 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences335–333 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences333–331 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences331–329 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences329–327 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences327–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–324 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences324–322 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences289–288 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences288–286 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences284–282 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences323.4 Mya290.1 Mya336 Mya282 Mya

6 occurrences of Cobelodus 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

6 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

3 formations

Wild Cow — 34.95°N, 106.30°WBarneston — 40.14°N, 96.65°WFayetteville — 36.00°N, 94.00°W

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The named rock units Cobelodus 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.

Cobelodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Cobelodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Cobelodus, 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

5 references

Each of the 6 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 Cobelodus was found. iDigBio was searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Cobelodus itself, so it was not used.

Wikidata and 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 Cobelodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cobelodus 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 itSymmoriidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zangerl 1973