Poecilodus

No picture of Poecilodus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. 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 Poecilodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CochliodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 70 million years on record.

The record covers at least 330.3 Mya to 259.857 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 6 of 7 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 1 of 7 occurrencesPermian361–357 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences357–354 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences354–350 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences350–346 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences346–343 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences343–339 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences339–336 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences336–332 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences332–328 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences328–325 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences325–321 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences317–314 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences314–310 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences310–307 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences263–259 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences259–256 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences256–252 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences330.3 Mya259.857 Mya361 Mya252 Mya

7 occurrences of Poecilodus 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

7 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

2 formations

Wargal — 32.41°N, 72.10°EIchinotani — 36.22°N, 137.51°E

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The named rock units Poecilodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Poecilodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Poecilodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

75 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Poecilodus, 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

3 references

Each of the 7 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

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No picture of Poecilodus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Poecilodus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Poecilodus 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 itCochliodontidae through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1843