Decodon

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LythraceaePBDB
Diet
"photoautotroph"PBDB, for Angiospermae

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 151 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 1 of 151 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 6 of 151 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 33 of 151 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 105 of 151 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 5 of 151 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 151 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 4 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 11 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 15 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 3 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 19 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 49 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 14 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 14 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 6 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences72.2 Mya3.6 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

151 occurrences of Decodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

151 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

4 formations

John Day — 45.00°N, 120.20°WJohn Day — 44.94°N, 120.40°WSanta Maria di Ciciliano — 42.65°N, 12.49°EOdderup — 54.93°N, 10.27°ETienen — 50.78°N, 5.08°E

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The named rock units Decodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 145 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Decodon and its relatives

Miocene

Where Decodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

178 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Decodon, 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

16 references

Each of the 151 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. 4 further references are not listed. 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

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Decodon puellaris · FMNH:Fishes:66713

No picture of Decodon was found. Wikipedia and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikidata has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Decodon 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 Decodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itLythraceae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gmelin 1791