Harpacodus
No picture of Harpacodus 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 Harpacodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PetalodontidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Petalodontiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Petalodontiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Petalodontiformes
Time the record covers
At most 17 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 330.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Harpacodus 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
1 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
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The named rock units Harpacodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Harpacodus and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Harpacodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
18 taxa- Antliodus1 site
- Blastoidea1 site
- Brachiopoda1 site
- Bryozoa1 site
- Chondrichthyes1 site
- Clavusodens mcginnisi1 site
- Crinoidea1 site
- Janassa1 site
- Lisgodus1 site
- Macadens olsoni n. gen. n. sp.1 site
- Netsepoye1 site
- Petalodus1 site
- Petalodus hastingsiae1 site
- Petalodus linguifer1 site
- Petalorhynchus1 site
- Petalorhynchus spatulatus1 site
- Rugosa1 site
- Strigilodus tollesonae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Harpacodus, 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Harpacodus 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 Harpacodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Harpacodus 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 itPetalodontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. St. John and Worthen 1875