Orthacanthus texensis

No picture of Orthacanthus texensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthacanthus texensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At most 56 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 307 Mya and 251.902 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Carboniferous — about 0 of 9 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 9 of 9 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 9 occurrences308–306 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences306–304 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences304–302 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences302–300 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences300–299 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences299–297 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences297–295 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences295–293 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences293–291 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences291–289 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences289–287 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences287–285 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences285–283 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences283–281 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences281–279 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences279–278 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences278–276 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences276–274 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences274–272 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences272–270 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences270–268 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences268–266 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences266–264 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences264–262 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences262–260 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences260–258 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences258–257 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences257–255 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences255–253 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences253–251 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences308 Mya251 Mya

9 occurrences of Orthacanthus texensis 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

9 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

6 formations

Garber Sandstone — 34.53°N, 98.89°WGarber Sandstone — 34.58°N, 98.85°WArcher City — 33.34°N, 98.39°WNocona — 33.68°N, 98.70°WWashington — 39.77°N, 80.00°WHalgaito — 37.29°N, 109.86°WWellington — 36.30°N, 97.30°W

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The named rock units Orthacanthus texensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Orthacanthus texensis and its relatives

Permian

Where Orthacanthus texensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.

Found in the same rock

83 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 9 sites for Orthacanthus texensis, 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

6 references

Each of the 9 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 content0

No picture of Orthacanthus texensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Orthacanthus texensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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. Cope 1888