Colobodus latus

(Agassiz, 1833) · 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
- ColobodusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 22 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Colobodus latus on record, most of them in the Late 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
5 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Colobodus latus 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.
Colobodus latus and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Colobodus latus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
17 taxa- Pholidophorus latiusculus5 sites
- Paralepidotus ornatus4 sites
- Pholidophorus pusillus4 sites
- Heterolepidotus cephalus3 sites
- Peltopleurus humilis3 sites
- Heterolepidotus dorsalis2 sites
- Heterolepidotus striatus2 sites
- Belonorhynchus1 site
- Dapedius costai1 site
- Eugnathus brachilepis1 site
- Furo insignis1 site
- Holophagus picenus1 site
- Italopterus magnificus1 site
- Lepidotes1 site
- Lepidotus parvulus1 site
- Saurichthys deperditus1 site
- Undina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Colobodus latus, 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
4 references- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History), Part III2
- La ittiofauna della Dolomia Principale di Giffoni (Provincia di Salerno)1
- Pesci fossili di Lumezzane in val Trompia1
- Die fossilen Fische der Asphaltschiefer von Seefeld in Tirol1
Each of the 5 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
Media content1

Picture of Colobodus latus
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- (Agassiz, 1833)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Colobodus latus was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itColobodus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1833)