Pycnodontoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PycnodontoideiPBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Pycnodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pycnodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 93 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 8 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 8 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 8 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 5 of 8 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 8 occurrences170–167 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences167–163 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences145–142 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences142–138 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences128–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences71–67 Mya — about 2 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences165.3 Mya72.2 Mya170 Mya64 Mya

8 occurrences of Pycnodontoidea on record, most of them in the Late 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

8 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

6 formations

Lameta — 20.21°N, 79.09°ELameta — 20.36°N, 79.03°EForest Marble — 51.87°N, 1.27°WLa Huérguina — 40.12°N, 1.97°WValdenoceda — 42.90°N, 3.30°WVillalba de la Sierra — 39.95°N, 2.02°WTropic Shale — 37.13°N, 111.44°W

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The named rock units Pycnodontoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pycnodontoidea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pycnodontoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

165 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Pycnodontoidea, 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 8 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 content0

No picture of Pycnodontoidea was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Pycnodontoidea itself, so it was not used.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Pycnodontoidea, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itPycnodontoidei through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.