Elasmodus greenoughi
No picture of Elasmodus greenoughi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Elasmodus greenoughi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElasmodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Elasmodus greenoughi 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
3 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Dinosaur Park Formation · Belly River Group2
- Judith River Formation1
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The named rock units Elasmodus greenoughi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elasmodus greenoughi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Elasmodus greenoughi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
33 taxa- Cretorectolobus olsoni3 sites
- Ischyrhiza mira3 sites
- Meristodonoides montanensis3 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus3 sites
- Odontaspis aculeatus3 sites
- Plesiosauria3 sites
- Protoplatyrhina renae3 sites
- Ptychotrygon blainensis3 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis judithensis2 sites
- Carcharias samhammeri2 sites
- Crocodylia2 sites
- Eucrossorhinus microcuspidatus2 sites
- Paralbula casei2 sites
- Polyodontidae2 sites
- Acipenseridae1 site
- Archaeolamna kopingensis1 site
- Archaeotriakis1 site
- Archaeotriakis rochelleae1 site
- Aves1 site
- Ceratopsidae1 site
- Champsosaurus1 site
- Chiloscyllium missouriensis1 site
- Enchodus1 site
- Ischyodus bifurcatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Elasmodus greenoughi, 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- A vertebrate assemblage from the marine shales of the Lethbridge Coal Zone1
- An elasmobranch assemblage from the terrestrial-marine transitional Lethbridge Coal Zone (Dinosaur Park Formation: Upper Campanian), Alberta, Canada1
- Additional fish records from the Judith River Formation (Campanian) of Montana1
Each of the 3 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
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No picture of Elasmodus greenoughi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Elasmodus greenoughi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elasmodus greenoughi 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 itElasmodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1838)