Edaphodon eurygnathus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EdaphodonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Edaphodon eurygnathus 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
6 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
3 formations
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group3
- Elmore Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- London Clay Formation1
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The named rock units Edaphodon eurygnathus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Edaphodon eurygnathus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Edaphodon eurygnathus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
268 taxa- Aetobatus irregularis6 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni6 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei6 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus6 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis6 sites
- Jaekelotodus trigonalis6 sites
- Myliobatis toliapicus6 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri6 sites
- Palaeocybium proosti6 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti6 sites
- Scyliorhinus6 sites
- Squatina prima6 sites
- Abdounia recticona5 sites
- Acipenser toliapicus5 sites
- Aetomylaeus striatus5 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi5 sites
- Chelone5 sites
- Conger5 sites
- Dasyatis jaekeli5 sites
- Eotrigonodon serratus5 sites
- Galeorhinus ypresiensis5 sites
- Heterodontus5 sites
- Heterodontus vincenti5 sites
- Heterodontus woodwardi5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Edaphodon eurygnathus, 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- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)4
- Stratigraphy and Biota of the Elmore Formation (Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, Hampshire1
- Casier, 19661
Each of the 6 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
Media content0
No picture of Edaphodon eurygnathus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Edaphodon eurygnathus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEdaphodon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1843