Phyllodus toliapicus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PhyllodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Elopiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Elopiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Elopiformes

Time the record covers

At least 24 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 15 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 12 of 15 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66 Mya41.03 Mya73 Mya33.1 Mya

15 occurrences of Phyllodus toliapicus on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

15 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

10 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ETallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WFerris — 41.94°N, 106.88°WAquia — 38.34°N, 77.27°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WTuscahoma — 32.40°N, 88.69°WShark River — 40.20°N, 74.17°WWilliamsburg — 33.40°N, 79.93°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WArgile des Flandres — 50.85°N, 4.37°E

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The named rock units Phyllodus toliapicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Phyllodus toliapicus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Phyllodus toliapicus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

514 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Phyllodus toliapicus, 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

10 references

Each of the 15 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 content1

Picture of Phyllodus toliapicus

Source
Smithsonian
Credit
Smithsonian Institution
Licence
CC0 — this site’s default, not the record’s
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Phyllodus toliapicus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itPhyllodus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1839