Deltodus mercurei

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DeltodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 45 million years on record.

The record covers at least 312.8 Mya to 266.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 318.6 Mya to 264.28 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 1 of 8 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 7 of 8 occurrencesPermian320–318 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences318–316 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences316–314 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences314–312 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–273 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences273–271 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences271–269 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences269–267 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences267–265 Mya — about 3 occurrences265–263 Mya — about 2 occurrences312.8 Mya266.9 Mya320 Mya263 Mya

8 occurrences of Deltodus mercurei 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

3 formations

Khuff — 20.86°N, 57.60°EKhuff — 21.01°N, 57.67°EPhosphoria — 43.19°N, 109.16°WPhosphoria — 42.67°N, 108.68°WWatahomigi — 36.20°N, 113.04°W

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The named rock units Deltodus mercurei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Deltodus mercurei and its relatives

Permian

Where Deltodus mercurei and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

40 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Deltodus mercurei, 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

3 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. 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 Deltodus mercurei 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 Deltodus mercurei, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Deltodus mercurei 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 itDeltodus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Newberry 1876