Coelodus saturnus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoelodusPBDB
- Diet
- durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 83.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Coelodus saturnus 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
4 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Coelodus saturnus 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.
Coelodus saturnus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Coelodus saturnus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Amiopsis prisca1 site
- Coelodus vetteri1 site
- Elopopsis1 site
- Elopopsis microdon1 site
- Heckelichthys microdon1 site
- Heckelichthys vexillifer1 site
- Holcodon lesinaensis1 site
- Hoplopteryx stachei1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Lobopterus pectinatus1 site
- Scombroclupea gaudryi1 site
- Scombroclupea pinnulata1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Coelodus saturnus, 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
3 references- Fosilne ribe Komena, Mrzleka, Hvara i M. Libanona uz dodatak o Oligocenskim ribama Tüffera, Zagora i Trifalja2
- New insight into pycnodontiform fishes1
- Über einige fossile Fische aus den Kreide- und Tertiär- schichten von Comen und Podsused.1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Coelodus saturnus 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 Coelodus saturnus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Coelodus saturnus 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 itCoelodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Haeckel 1856