Falcatus falcatus
No picture of Falcatus falcatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Falcatus falcatus itself, so it was not used. 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 Falcatus falcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- FalcatusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Symmoriiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Symmoriiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Symmoriiformes
Time the record covers
At most 3.3 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 326.9 Mya and 323.6 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Falcatus falcatus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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- Carboniferous100%
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
- Heath Formation · Big Snowy Group8
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The named rock units Falcatus falcatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Falcatus falcatus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Falcatus falcatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
66 taxa- Fubarichthyiformes7 sites
- Wendyichthys dicksoni7 sites
- Aesopichthys erinaceus6 sites
- Harpagofututor volsellorhinus6 sites
- Cyranorhis bergeraci5 sites
- Paratarrasius hibbardi4 sites
- Debeerius ellefseni3 sites
- Kalops diophrys3 sites
- Kalops monophrys3 sites
- Lineagruan judithi3 sites
- Papilionichthys stahlae3 sites
- Wendyichthys lautreci3 sites
- Acanthodes2 sites
- Actinopterygii2 sites
- Animalia2 sites
- Archisymplectes rhothon2 sites
- Beagiascus pulcherrimus2 sites
- Belantsea montana2 sites
- Boeotiaspis longispinus2 sites
- Carbosesostris megaliphagon2 sites
- Caridosuctor populosum2 sites
- Damocles serratus2 sites
- Lineagruan2 sites
- Lineagruan snowyi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Falcatus falcatus, 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
2 references- The morphology of Falcatus falcatus (St. John and Worthen), a Mississippian stethacanthid chondrichthyan from the Bear Gulch Limestone of Montana5
- Fish diversity of the Bear Gulch Limestone, Namurian, Lower Carboniferous of Montana, USA3
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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1
3D model
- Source
- Sketchfab
- Credit
- Chris AKA ChrisM1994
- Licence
- CC Attribution
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
No picture of Falcatus falcatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Falcatus falcatus itself, so it was not used.
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 Falcatus falcatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itFalcatus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (St John and Worthern 1875)