Enchelurus villosus
No picture of Enchelurus villosus 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 Enchelurus villosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnchelurusPBDB
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 12 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Enchelurus villosus 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
1 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Enchelurus villosus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Enchelurus villosus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Enchelurus villosus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
12 taxa- Acrogaster minutus1 site
- Acrogaster parvus1 site
- Benthesikyme armatus1 site
- Charitosomus formosus1 site
- Esox monasteriensis1 site
- Hoplopteryx antiquus major1 site
- Hoplopteryx gibbus1 site
- Omosoma monasterii1 site
- Spaniodon lepturus1 site
- Sphenocephalus fissicaudus1 site
- Squatina baumbergensis1 site
- Tubantia cataphractus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Enchelurus villosus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Enchelurus villosus 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 Enchelurus villosus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Enchelurus villosus 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 itEnchelurus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von der Marck 1863