Sagenodus

Sagenodus is an extinct genus of prehistoric lungfish. It is a lungfish from the Permo-Carboniferous period found in Europe and North America.

Sagenodus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SagenodontidaePBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
Environment
lagoonal,marine,brackish,freshwaterPBDB, for Dipnoi

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 316.9 Mya to 244.4 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 330.3 Mya to 241.464 Mya.

Carboniferous — about 9 of 16 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 6 of 16 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 0 of 16 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 16 occurrences332–329 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences329–326 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences326–323 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences323–320 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences320–317 Mya — about 1 occurrence317–314 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences314–311 Mya — about 2 occurrences311–307 Mya — about 2 occurrences307–304 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences304–301 Mya — about 1 occurrence301–298 Mya — about 1 occurrence298–295 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences295–292 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences292–289 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences289–286 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences286–283 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences283–280 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences280–277 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences277–274 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences274–270 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences270–267 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences267–264 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences264–261 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences261–258 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences258–255 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences255–252 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences252–249 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences246–243 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences243–240 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences316.9 Mya244.4 Mya332 Mya240 Mya

16 occurrences of Sagenodus 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

16 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

12 formations

Garber — 36.77°N, 97.77°WGarber — 36.66°N, 97.69°WCarbondale — 41.34°N, 88.39°WCarbondale — 39.28°N, 89.88°WLueders — 33.78°N, 99.14°WNocona — 33.68°N, 98.70°WAshfield Shale — 33.91°S, 151.19°EKanawha — 38.00°N, 81.00°WBern Limestone — 39.82°N, 95.41°WOread — 38.00°N, 96.19°WPoint Edward — 46.17°N, 60.27°WHalgaito — 37.29°N, 109.86°WGarber Sandstone — 34.58°N, 98.85°WCoolbaun Formation — 52.81°N, 7.20°W

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The named rock units Sagenodus 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.

Sagenodus and its relatives

Carboniferous

Where Sagenodus and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.

Found in the same rock

197 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 13 sites for Sagenodus, 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

15 references

Each of the 16 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 Sagenodus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Sagenodus 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

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

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

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Owen 1867