Cylindracanthus acus
No picture of Cylindracanthus acus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Cylindracanthus acus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CylindracanthusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Cylindracanthus acus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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 Cylindracanthus acus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Cylindracanthus acus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Cylindracanthus acus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
31 taxa- Abdounia recticona1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Corvina intermedia1 site
- Crocodylia1 site
- Cylindracanthus rectus1 site
- Dasyatis1 site
- Diodon1 site
- Edaphodon eocaenus1 site
- Emballorhynchus kinnei n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Galeocerdo latidens1 site
- Ginglymostoma serra1 site
- Hemipristis curvatus1 site
- Istiophorus parvulus1 site
- Lembonax propylaeus1 site
- Miacidae1 site
- Myliobatis bisulcus1 site
- Negaprion1 site
- Paralopias alabamensis1 site
- Phyllodus1 site
- Phyllodus elegans1 site
- Phyllodus toliapicus1 site
- Pristis amblodon1 site
- Raja1 site
- Rhinoptera1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Cylindracanthus acus, 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- Thurmond and Jones, 19811
- Fourth contribution to the history of the fauna of the Miocene and Eocene periods of the United States1
Each of the 2 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 Cylindracanthus acus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Cylindracanthus acus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cylindracanthus acus 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 itCylindracanthus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cope 1870)