Ctenoptychius apicalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CtenoptychiusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Petalodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Petalodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Petalodontiformes
Time the record covers
At least 8.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 323.4 Mya to 315.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 298.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Ctenoptychius apicalis on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
7 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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.
Ctenoptychius apicalis and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Ctenoptychius apicalis and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
62 taxa- Helodus simplex4 sites
- Pleuracanthus cylindricus3 sites
- Pleuroplax rankinei3 sites
- Strepsodus sauroides3 sites
- Diplodus tenuis2 sites
- Janassa bituminosa2 sites
- Orthacanthus gibbosus2 sites
- Pleuracanthus laevissimus2 sites
- Rhizodopsis sauroides2 sites
- Acondylacanthus distans1 site
- Ageleodus pectinatus1 site
- Asterolepis verrucosa1 site
- Asteroptychius ornatus1 site
- Asteroptychius semiornatus1 site
- Chomatodus denticulatus1 site
- Chomatodus linearis1 site
- Chomatodus oliquus1 site
- Chomatodus truncatus1 site
- Cladodus marginatus1 site
- Cladodus mirabilis1 site
- Coccosteus carbonarius1 site
- Cochliodus acutus1 site
- Cochliodus contortus1 site
- Ctenacanthus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Ctenoptychius apicalis, 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
2 references- Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) Part 16
- A synopsis of the classification of the British Palaeozoic rocks, with a systematic description of the British Palaeozoic fossils.Fasciculus 3, Mollusca and Palaeozoic fishes1
Each of the 7 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
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No picture of Ctenoptychius apicalis 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 Ctenoptychius apicalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ctenoptychius apicalis 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 itCtenoptychius through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1838