Sphenodus longidens

Sphenodus longidens

Uncredited · 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
SphenodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 85 million years on record.

The record covers at least 168.6 Mya to 83.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 170.9 Mya to 66 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 3 of 15 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 2 of 15 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 15 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 9 of 15 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 15 occurrences173–169 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences169–166 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences166–162 Mya — about 2 occurrences162–158 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 1 occurrence115–111 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences111–108 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–100 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences97–93 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–86 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences86–82 Mya — about 3 occurrences82–78 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences75–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–64 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences168.6 Mya83.6 Mya173 Mya64 Mya

15 occurrences of Sphenodus longidens 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

15 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

Jasna Gora — 50.46°N, 19.51°EMarnes sableuses d'Audun-le-Tiche — 49.45°N, 6.00°E

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The named rock units Sphenodus longidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Sphenodus longidens and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Sphenodus longidens and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

68 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Sphenodus longidens, 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 15 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 Sphenodus longidens

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 Sphenodus longidens 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 itSphenodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

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