Parvodus

Parvodus is an extinct genus of hybodont, known from the Mesozoic era.

Parvodus

Benjamin T. Breeden III, Nozomu Oyama, Makoto Manabe, Humio Takahashi, Chisako Sakata · CC BY 4.0 · 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.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 159 million years on record.

The record covers at least 243.43 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 244.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Triassic — about 0 of 81 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 81 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 2 of 81 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 81 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 81 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 2 of 81 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 69 of 81 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 2 of 81 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 81 occurrences248–242 Mya — about 1 occurrence242–236 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences236–229 Mya — about 1 occurrence229–223 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences205–198 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences198–192 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences192–186 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences186–180 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences180–174 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences174–168 Mya — about 1 occurrence168–161 Mya — about 3 occurrences161–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–149 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences149–143 Mya — about 3 occurrences143–137 Mya — about 42 occurrences137–130 Mya — about 1 occurrence130–124 Mya — about 4 occurrences124–118 Mya — about 9 occurrences118–112 Mya — about 5 occurrences112–106 Mya — about 3 occurrences106–100 Mya — about 3 occurrences100–93 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences93–87 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–81 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences81–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–69 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences69–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences243.43 Mya83.6 Mya248 Mya62 Mya

81 occurrences of Parvodus on record, most of them in the Early 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

81 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

24 formations

Durlston — 50.60°N, 1.95°WDurlston — 50.62°N, 2.25°WAnnero — 59.31°N, 18.07°EPaluxy — 32.00°N, 98.25°WPaluxy — 32.95°N, 97.69°WPaluxy — 32.36°N, 97.99°WEl Castellar — 40.65°N, 0.89°WEl Castellar — 40.67°N, 0.67°WLulworth — 50.60°N, 1.95°WCloverly — 44.65°N, 107.88°WCloverly — 44.51°N, 107.90°WTwin Mountains — 32.27°N, 97.91°WCamarillas — 40.65°N, 0.88°WJydegaard — 55.08°N, 14.75°EXietan — 31.01°N, 110.59°EVega de Pas — 43.13°N, 3.78°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.10°WArtoles — 40.82°N, 0.28°WWessex — 50.64°N, 1.41°WWadhurst Clay — 50.86°N, 0.44°EYangliujing — 25.90°N, 105.50°ESao Khua — 17.10°N, 102.49°EMissão Velha — 7.26°S, 39.14°WForest Marble — 50.71°N, 2.78°WTiki — 23.90°N, 81.35°EWhite Limestone — 51.75°N, 1.17°WMomonoki — 34.18°N, 131.15°EWoburn Sands — 52.03°N, 0.40°WSandgate — 51.24°N, 0.15°W

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The named rock units Parvodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Parvodus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Parvodus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

402 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Parvodus, 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

32 references

Each of the 81 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. 20 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 Parvodus

Credit
Benjamin T. Breeden III, Nozomu Oyama, Makoto Manabe, Humio Takahashi, Chisako Sakata
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Parvodus ominechonensis · MMHF:3-00036

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

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itLonchidiidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rees and Underwood 2002