Enchodus lewesiensis
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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 least 89 million years on record.
The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 66 Mya.
10 occurrences of Enchodus lewesiensis 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
10 occurrencesThese 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
5 formations
- Zig Zag Chalk Formation · Chalk Group4
- Seaford Formation2
- Gerharsreit Formation1
- Holleywell, New Pit, Lewes Formation · White Chalk Group1
- Teplice Formation1
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The named rock units Enchodus lewesiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Enchodus lewesiensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Enchodus lewesiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
255 taxa- Ctenothrissa radians4 sites
- Homonotichthys dorsalis3 sites
- Bairdia subdeltoidea2 sites
- Centrophoroides appendiculatus2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Cretolamna lata2 sites
- Dercetidae2 sites
- Dercetis elongatus2 sites
- Enchelurus anglicus2 sites
- Eurypholis pulchellus2 sites
- Homonotichthys rotundus2 sites
- Hoplopteryx simus2 sites
- Prionolepis angustus2 sites
- Ptychodus2 sites
- Ptychodus latissimus2 sites
- Squalicorax pristodontus2 sites
- Squalus2 sites
- ? Neorhombolepis punctatus1 site
- "Aipichthys" nuchalus1 site
- "Coelodus" fimbriatus1 site
- "Lepidotes" pustulatus1 site
- "Pycnodus" scrobiculatus1 site
- Acrodus affinis1 site
- Acrognathus boops1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Enchodus lewesiensis, 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
4 references- The fossil fishes of the English Chalk. Part II6
- Die Kreidegebilde des westlichen Böhmens, ein monographischer Versuch. Bemerkungen uver die Braunkohlenlager jenseits der Elbe und eine Uebersicht der fossilen Fischreste Bohmens2
- The English Chalk and London Clay: two remarkable British bony fish Lagerstatten1
- Die Kreidebildungen des Fürbergs und Sulzbergs bei Siegsdorf in Oberbayern1
Each of the 10 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 Enchodus lewesiensis 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 Enchodus lewesiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Enchodus lewesiensis 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. (Mantell 1822)