Megalodonta indet.

Bidens is a genus of flowering plants in the aster family, Asteraceae. The genus include roughly 230 species which are distributed worldwide. Despite their global distribution, the systematics and taxonomy of the genus has been described as complicated and unorganized. The common names beggarticks, black jack, burr marigolds, cobbler's pegs, Spanish needles, stickseeds, tickseeds and tickseed sunflowers refer to the fruits of the plants, most of which are bristly and barbed. The generic name refers to the same character; Bidens comes from the Latin bi ("two") and dens ("tooth").

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Uncredited · 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.

Time the record covers

At most 53 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 227.3 Mya and 174.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 2 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences227–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–221 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences221–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–217 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences217–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–214 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences214–212 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences210–208 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences208–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–205 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences205–203 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences203–201 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences201–199 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences199–197 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences197–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–194 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences194–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–190 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences190–188 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences188–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–183 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences183–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–179 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences179–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–175 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences175–174 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228 Mya174 Mya

2 occurrences of Megalodonta indet. 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

2 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.

Megalodonta indet. and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Megalodonta indet. and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

27 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Megalodonta indet., 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

Each of the 2 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. 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 3D scan of Megalodonta indet. 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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.