Damocles serratus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DamoclesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Symmoriiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Symmoriiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Symmoriiformes
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 326.9 Mya and 323.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Damocles serratus 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
2 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.
Found in
1 formation
- Heath Formation · Big Snowy Group2
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The named rock units Damocles serratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Damocles serratus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Damocles serratus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Aesopichthys erinaceus2 sites
- Animalia2 sites
- Archisymplectes rhothon2 sites
- Beagiascus pulcherrimus2 sites
- Belantsea montana2 sites
- Boeotiaspis longispinus2 sites
- Carbosesostris megaliphagon2 sites
- Cyranorhis bergeraci2 sites
- Debeerius ellefseni2 sites
- Falcatus falcatus2 sites
- Harpagofututor volsellorhinus2 sites
- Kalops monophrys2 sites
- Lineagruan judithi2 sites
- Lineagruan snowyi2 sites
- Papilionichthys stahlae2 sites
- Paratarrasius hibbardi2 sites
- Phiops aciculorum2 sites
- Rainerichthys zangerli2 sites
- Wendyichthys dicksoni2 sites
- Astreptoscolex anasillosus1 site
- Belinuridae1 site
- Belotelson1 site
- Caridosuctor populosum1 site
- Delphyodontos dacriformes1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Damocles serratus, 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
1 referenceEach 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Damocles serratus 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 Damocles serratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Damocles serratus 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 itDamocles through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Lund 1986