Helodus subpolitus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HelodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Holocephali
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Holocephali
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Holocephali
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 266.9 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 274.4 Mya to 251.902 Mya.
10 occurrences of Helodus subpolitus on record, most of them in the Permian. 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 occurrences- Permian100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Helodus subpolitus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Helodus subpolitus and its relatives
PermianWhere Helodus subpolitus and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
39 taxa- Arctacanthus phosphoriensis4 sites
- Polidevcia bellistriata4 sites
- Prodentalium canna4 sites
- Arctacanthus multisectus2 sites
- Bathymyonia nevadensis2 sites
- Composita mexicana2 sites
- Crinoidea2 sites
- Echinauris magna2 sites
- Janassa unguicula2 sites
- Nuculopsis poposiensis2 sites
- Punctospirifer kentuckensis2 sites
- Rhynchopora taylori2 sites
- Timaniella pseudocamerata2 sites
- Xestotrema pulchrum2 sites
- Yakovlevia multistriata2 sites
- Acondylacanthus browni1 site
- Agassizodus variabilis1 site
- Arctacanthus wyomingensis1 site
- Bellerophon depauperatus1 site
- Campodus1 site
- Cancrinella phosphatica1 site
- Composita gigantea1 site
- Composita plana1 site
- Composita subtilita1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Helodus subpolitus, 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
3 references- Paleontology and stratigraphy of the Phosphoria Formation5
- Fish fauna of the middle Phosphoria Formation4
- The Lower Embar of Wyoming and Its Fauna1
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 Helodus subpolitus 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 Helodus subpolitus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Helodus subpolitus 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 itHelodus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Branson 1916