Sargodon

Sargodon is an extinct genus of neopterygian ray-finned fish that lived during the Middle and Late Triassic epochs in what is now Europe.

Sargodon

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/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
SemionotidaePBDB
Diet
durophage, carnivorePBDB, for Semionotiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Semionotiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Semionotiformes

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 237 Mya to 205.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 241.464 Mya to 199.5 Mya.

Middle Triassic — about 1 of 57 occurrencesMiddle TriassicLate Triassic — about 55 of 57 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 57 occurrences242–241 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences241–239 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences239–238 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences238–236 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences228–226 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences226–225 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences225–223 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences223–222 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences222–220 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences220–219 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences219–218 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences218–216 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences216–215 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences215–213 Mya — about 2 occurrences213–212 Mya — about 2 occurrences212–210 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences210–209 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences209–207 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences207–206 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences206–204 Mya — about 14 occurrences204–203 Mya — about 17 occurrences203–202 Mya — about 17 occurrences202–200 Mya — about 2 occurrences200–199 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences237 Mya205.7 Mya242.3 Mya198.7 Mya

57 occurrences of Sargodon on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

57 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

14 formations

Westbury — 53.03°N, 0.81°WWestbury — 51.60°N, 2.63°WWestbury — 51.24°N, 2.34°WWestbury — 50.78°N, 2.99°WWestbury — 52.91°N, 0.90°WWestbury — 51.55°N, 2.40°WWestbury — 51.82°N, 2.41°WWestbury — 51.18°N, 3.38°WGrès de Mortinsart — 49.70°N, 5.66°EGrès de Mortinsart — 49.75°N, 5.79°EKlettgau — 47.71°N, 8.45°EKössener Schichten — 48.13°N, 16.24°EExter — 48.55°N, 9.07°EExter — 51.57°N, 9.05°EDolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.93°ECalcare di Zorzino — 45.82°N, 9.60°EZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°ERiva di Solto — 46.17°N, 9.74°ESables de Mortinsart — 49.71°N, 5.62°EJilh — 26.39°N, 44.24°EBlue Anchor — 51.18°N, 3.38°WKössen — 47.05°N, 9.70°EGrès de Infralias — 48.01°N, 5.53°E

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The named rock units Sargodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 24 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sargodon and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Sargodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

241 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 54 sites for Sargodon, 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

32 references

Each of the 57 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. 20 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 Sargodon

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Sargodon 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 itSemionotidae through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Plieninger 1847