Psephodus

Psephodus

(Agassiz, 1838) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikidata/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
PsephodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cochliodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Cochliodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 104 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 254.14 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 419.62 Mya to 251.902 Mya.

Silurian — about 0 of 14 occurrencesDevonian — about 1 of 14 occurrencesDevonianCarboniferous — about 10 of 14 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 14 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 14 occurrences423–417 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences417–411 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences411–406 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences406–400 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences400–394 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences394–388 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences388–382 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences382–376 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences376–371 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences371–365 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences365–359 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences359–353 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences353–347 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences347–342 Mya — about 2 occurrences342–336 Mya — about 2 occurrences336–330 Mya — about 2 occurrences330–324 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences324–318 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences318–313 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences313–307 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences307–301 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences301–295 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences260–254 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences254–249 Mya — about 2 occurrences358.86 Mya254.14 Mya423 Mya249 Mya

14 occurrences of Psephodus 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

14 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

5 formations

Chhidru — 32.32°N, 71.18°EChhidru — 32.25°N, 71.14°ECauldon Low Limestone — 53.03°N, 1.88°WWaterhouses Limestone — 52.80°N, 2.10°WUm Bogma — 29.06°N, 33.13°EWargal — 32.25°N, 71.14°E

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The named rock units Psephodus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Psephodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Psephodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

199 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Psephodus, 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

7 references

Each of the 14 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 Psephodus

Credit
(Agassiz, 1838)
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Psephodus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Morris and Roberts 1862