Colobodus

Colobodus

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
ColobodontidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 250.8 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 251.1 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Permian — about 0 of 65 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 1 of 65 occurrencesEarly TriassicMiddle Triassic — about 36 of 65 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 27 of 65 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 65 occurrences252–250 Mya — about 1 occurrence249–247 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences247–245 Mya — about 2 occurrences245–243 Mya — about 5 occurrences243–241 Mya — about 13 occurrences241–240 Mya — about 5 occurrences240–238 Mya — about 7 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 4 occurrences236–234 Mya — about 2 occurrences234–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence232–231 Mya — about 1 occurrence231–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–227 Mya — about 1 occurrence227–225 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences225–224 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences224–222 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences220–218 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 1 occurrence215–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–211 Mya — about 2 occurrences211–209 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 5 occurrences204–202 Mya — about 5 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences250.8 Mya205.7 Mya252 Mya198 Mya

65 occurrences of Colobodus on record, most of them in the Middle Triassic. 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

65 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

20 formations

Muschelkalk — 41.27°N, 1.12°EMuschelkalk — 41.80°N, 2.23°EMuschelkalk — 41.56°N, 1.90°EMuschelkalk — 42.13°N, 1.46°EBesano — 45.88°N, 8.90°EBesano — 45.96°N, 8.81°EGrabfeld — 49.70°N, 10.43°EGrès de Mortinsart — 49.70°N, 5.66°EGrès de Mortinsart — 49.75°N, 5.79°EBesano — 45.91°N, 8.94°EWestbury — 51.60°N, 2.63°WSeefelder — 47.32°N, 11.22°EDolomia Principale — 40.72°N, 14.95°ETrochitenkalk — 49.31°N, 8.72°EVäszoly — 46.88°N, 17.60°EFavret — 40.06°N, 117.56°WTrossingen — 51.90°N, 11.07°ELower Ceratite Limestone — 32.41°N, 72.10°ESan Cassiano — 46.54°N, 11.94°ECassian — 46.55°N, 11.93°ERaibl — 47.32°N, 10.98°EJilh — 26.39°N, 44.24°EPerledo-Varenna — 46.02°N, 9.30°EFalang — 25.13°N, 104.75°EGrès de Infralias — 48.01°N, 5.53°E

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The named rock units Colobodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 25 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Colobodus and its relatives

Middle Triassic

Where Colobodus and its relatives were recorded in the Middle Triassic.

Found in the same rock

718 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Colobodus, 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

36 references

Each of the 65 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. 24 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 content1

Picture of Colobodus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itColobodontidae through timeFormations of the Middle TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1843