Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CtenacanthusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ctenacanthiformes

Time the record covers

At least 29 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 274.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 266.9 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 8 occurrencesPermian308–306 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences294–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences291–290 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences290–288 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences288–287 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences287–286 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences286–284 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences284–283 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences281–280 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences280–279 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences279–277 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences277–276 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences273–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–269 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences267–266 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303.7 Mya274.4 Mya307.8 Mya266.1 Mya

8 occurrences of Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias on record, most of them in the Permian. 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

8 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

5 formations

Lueders — 33.75°N, 99.12°WGrenola — 39.00°N, 96.60°WMoran — 32.50°N, 100.06°WPhosphoria — 43.19°N, 109.16°WWinfield — 38.69°N, 96.93°W

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The named rock units Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias and its relatives

Permian

Where Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias, 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

7 references

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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

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 Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Ctenacanthus amblyxiphias 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 itCtenacanthus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1891