Hayenchelys germanus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HayenchelysPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Anguilliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Anguilliformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Hayenchelys germanus 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Hayenchelys germanus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hayenchelys germanus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Hayenchelys germanus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
42 taxa- Anguillavus quadripinnis4 sites
- Acrognathus dodgei2 sites
- Anguillavus mazeni2 sites
- Benthesikyme serpentina2 sites
- Cretodus semiplicatus2 sites
- Enchodus marchesettii2 sites
- Eubiodectes libanicus2 sites
- Libanopristis hiram2 sites
- Rhinobatos whitfieldi2 sites
- Sardinioides minimus2 sites
- Abisaadia hakelensis1 site
- Abisaadichthys libanicus1 site
- Aipichthys minor1 site
- Calliaxina hadjoulaensis1 site
- Charitosomus hakelensis1 site
- Coccodus insignis1 site
- Ctenothrissa signifer1 site
- Ctenothrissa vexillifer1 site
- Cyclobatis major1 site
- Cyclobatis oligodactylus1 site
- Enchelion montium1 site
- Eryma oscari1 site
- Freigichthys elleipsis1 site
- Holcolepis attenuatus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hayenchelys germanus, 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- Les premiers Anguilliformes : II. Paraphylie du genre Urenchelys Woodward, 1900 et relations phylogénétiques2
- On a collection of upper Cretaceous fishes from Mount Lebanon, Syria, with descriptions of four new genera and nineteen new species2
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 content1
Synchrotron Imaging scan
- Source
- MorphoSource
- Licence
- In Copyright
- Commercial use
- cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
- Specimen
- Hayenchelys germanus · nhmuk:pal:PV P 62726
No picture of Hayenchelys germanus 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 Hayenchelys germanus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHayenchelys through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Hay 1903)