Gibbodon cenensis

Gibbodon is an extinct genus of marine pycnodontid ray-finned fish from the Late Triassic of Europe. It contains a single species, G. cenensis from the Norian-aged Zorzino Limestone of Cene, Italy. It was previously placed in its own family Gibbodontidae, but is now known to belong in the family Brembodontidae.

Gibbodon cenensis

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GibbodonPBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes

Time the record covers

At most 4.2 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 215.38 Mya and 211.18 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Triassic216–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–215 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–214 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences214–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–213 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–212 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences212–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences211–211 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences215.9 Mya210.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Gibbodon cenensis on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

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

Zorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°E

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The named rock units Gibbodon cenensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Gibbodon cenensis and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Gibbodon cenensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

26 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Gibbodon cenensis, 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

1 reference

Each 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 content1

Picture of Gibbodon cenensis

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Gibbodon cenensis 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGibbodon through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Tintori 1981