Heterodontidae

Heterodontidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HeterodontiformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 346 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 315 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 315 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 315 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 315 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 2 of 315 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 0 of 315 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 7 of 315 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 315 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 5 of 315 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 52 of 315 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 79 of 315 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 18 of 315 occurrencesEocene — about 82 of 315 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 315 occurrencesMiocene — about 39 of 315 occurrencesPliocene — about 9 of 315 occurrencesPleistocene — about 7 of 315 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences256–244 Mya — about 1 occurrence244–232 Mya — about 1 occurrence195–183 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences183–171 Mya — about 7 occurrences171–159 Mya — about 5 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 4 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 7 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 7 occurrences122–110 Mya — about 14 occurrences110–98 Mya — about 33 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 22 occurrences85–73 Mya — about 29 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 28 occurrences61–49 Mya — about 29 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 55 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 16 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 21 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 36 occurrences346.7 Mya11.7 ka366 Mya0 Mya

315 occurrences of Heterodontidae on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

315 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

120 formations

Selsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WBurim — 49.71°N, 31.54°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.98°S, 145.05°EMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WLondon Clay — 51.38°N, 0.24°WLondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.66°N, 117.90°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EHunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WJiesia — 55.06°N, 24.37°EHythe — 51.19°N, 0.73°EHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.10°WMaastricht — 50.80°N, 5.68°EDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EFossil Bluff Sandstone — 40.98°S, 145.73°EParana — 31.38°S, 60.23°WParana — 31.71°S, 60.55°WParana — 32.08°S, 60.49°WOsinovaya — 48.46°N, 41.83°EOsinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.93°EOsinovaya — 48.40°N, 41.76°EObourg — 50.47°N, 4.03°ENavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WTuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°ECoquimbo — 30.00°S, 71.33°WCoquimbo — 30.32°S, 71.44°WJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°EFyansford — 38.18°S, 144.50°E

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The named rock units Heterodontidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 96 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 96 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterodontidae and its relatives

Eocene

Where Heterodontidae and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

3,058 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 264 sites for Heterodontidae, and this reads 240 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

150 references

Each of the 315 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. 138 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Heterodontidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gray 1851