Edaphodon mirificus

Edaphodon mirificus is a species of Edaphodon, which was found by Joseph Leidy in 1856, in Hornerstown, New Jersey.

No picture of Edaphodon mirificus 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 Edaphodon mirificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 8 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesPaleocene101–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences92–91 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences91–89 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences82–81 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences81–80 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences78–77 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences77–76 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83.6 Mya66 Mya101.3 Mya60.9 Mya

8 occurrences of Edaphodon mirificus on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

4 formations

Hornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.16°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WMooreville Chalk — 32.84°N, 87.89°WClayton — 34.49°N, 89.00°WRipley — 32.63°N, 88.20°W

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The named rock units Edaphodon mirificus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Edaphodon mirificus and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Edaphodon mirificus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

120 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Edaphodon mirificus, 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

5 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. 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 mirificus 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 Edaphodon mirificus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Edaphodon mirificus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itEdaphodon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Leidy 1856