Coelodus

Coelodus

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
PycnodontidaePBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 99 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 2 of 51 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 51 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 12 of 51 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 36 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 51 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–163 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences144–141 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences141–137 Mya — about 1 occurrence137–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–130 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences130–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences119–115 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences115–111 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 2 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 9 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 7 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 3 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–82 Mya — about 2 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences78–74 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 3 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 7 occurrences67–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences165.3 Mya66 Mya170 Mya60 Mya

51 occurrences of Coelodus 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

51 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

26 formations

Povir — 45.82°N, 13.75°EEl Molino — 17.69°S, 65.94°WEl Molino — 19.01°S, 65.23°WNimar Sandstone — 21.99°N, 75.76°ENimar Sandstone — 22.35°N, 74.32°EYacoraite — 25.38°S, 65.95°WYacoraite — 24.35°S, 66.25°WTremp — 42.00°N, 0.84°ETremp — 42.17°N, 1.79°ELa Huérguina — 40.22°N, 1.98°WTwin Mountains — 32.27°N, 97.91°WCalcaires à Stipites — 44.07°N, 3.29°EAhlen — 51.75°N, 8.03°EBaharîje — 28.43°N, 28.92°ECochirleni — 44.29°N, 28.09°ENimar — 22.01°N, 74.04°ELa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WTucumcari — 35.11°N, 103.33°WBückeberg — 52.26°N, 7.03°EPaluxy — 32.95°N, 97.69°WDukamaje — 15.47°N, 6.26°EBahariya — 28.37°N, 28.90°EStarigrad Limestone — 43.19°N, 16.65°EMilna — 43.27°N, 16.64°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WNaturita — 37.80°N, 111.50°WConques — 42.09°N, 0.69°EBurgsteinfurt — 52.19°N, 7.17°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Coelodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 18 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Coelodus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

396 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Coelodus, 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

31 references

Each of the 51 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. 19 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Coelodus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPycnodontidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1854