Enchodus faujasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EnchodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Enchodontidae
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Aulopiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Aulopiformes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Enchodus faujasi 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
4 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
4 formations
- Calcaire Nankin Formation1
- Mishash Formation1
- Calcarenites du Jadet Formation · Ausseing Group1
- Maastricht Formation1
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The named rock units Enchodus faujasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Enchodus faujasi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Enchodus faujasi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
23 taxa- Agerostrea ungulatus2 sites
- Amphidonte (Amphidonte) pyrenaicum2 sites
- Dipsacaster jadeti2 sites
- Anomoeodus subclavatus1 site
- Arctostraea ungulata1 site
- Asteriacites1 site
- Carcharias hopei1 site
- Cretolamna lata1 site
- Eusuchia1 site
- Galerites1 site
- Gastropoda1 site
- Hadrosauroidea1 site
- Lamniformes1 site
- Lepidorbitoides1 site
- Micropycnodon1 site
- Otostoma1 site
- Polymixia1 site
- Pycnodontiformes1 site
- Simplorbites1 site
- Squalicorax pristodontus1 site
- Stratodus1 site
- Teleostei1 site
- Titanopteryx1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Enchodus faujasi, 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
4 references- Faujas de Saint-Fond, Reinwardt, Cuvier et les poissons fossiles du Crétacé de la "Montagne Saint-Pierre" de Maastricht (Pays-Bas)1
- Les faunes de vertébrés continentaux du Maastrichtien supérieur d'Europe: systématique et biodiversité [The continental vertebrate faunas of the upper Maastrichtian of Europe: systematics and biodiversity]1
- Dipsacaster jadeti sp. nov. Astropectinidae (Asteroidea, Echinodermata) du Maastrichtien des Petites Pyrénées (France)1
- Remarkably preserved natural endocranial casts of pterosaur and fish from the Late Cretaceous of Israel1
Each of the 4 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 Enchodus faujasi 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 Enchodus faujasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Enchodus faujasi 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itEnchodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1843