Petalodus arcuatus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PetalodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Petalodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Petalodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Petalodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 4.8 million years on record.

The record covers at least 303.7 Mya to 298.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 307 Mya to 293.52 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 2 of 3 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPermian307–307 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences307–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–306 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences306–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–305 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences305–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences299–299 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences299–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–298 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences298–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–297 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences297–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–296 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences296–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–295 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences295–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences294–294 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences303.7 Mya298.9 Mya307.5 Mya293 Mya

3 occurrences of Petalodus arcuatus on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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

3 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

1 formation

Grenola — 39.00°N, 96.60°W

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The named rock units Petalodus arcuatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Petalodus arcuatus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Petalodus arcuatus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

8 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Petalodus arcuatus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 3 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Petalodus arcuatus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Petalodus arcuatus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Petalodus arcuatus 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itPetalodus through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (St. John 1870)