Stethacanthulus meccaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- StethacanthulusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Symmoriiformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Symmoriiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Symmoriiformes
Time the record covers
At least 43 million years on record.
The record covers at least 307.4 Mya to 264.28 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 315.2 Mya to 259.857 Mya.
45 occurrences of Stethacanthulus meccaensis on record, most of them in the Permian. 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
45 occurrences- Carboniferous27%
- Permian73%
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
8 formations
- Bell Canyon Formation28
- Linton Formation5
- Staunton Formation3
- Excello Shale Formation2
- Carbondale Formation2
- Brushy Canyon Formation2
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The named rock units Stethacanthulus meccaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Stethacanthulus meccaensis and its relatives
PermianWhere Stethacanthulus meccaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Permian.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Texasodus varidentatus10 sites
- Glikmanius occidentalis8 sites
- Osteichthyes6 sites
- Heslerodus divergens5 sites
- Sibyrhynchus denisoni5 sites
- Cladodontomorphi4 sites
- Glikmanius myachkovensis4 sites
- Iniopera richardsoni4 sites
- Cervifurca nasuta3 sites
- Elonichthyidae3 sites
- Stethacanthulus decorus3 sites
- Stethacanthus altonensis3 sites
- Symmoriiform indet.3 sites
- Actinopterygii2 sites
- Alilepis2 sites
- Chondrichthyes2 sites
- Cooleyella amazonensis2 sites
- Cooleyella duffini2 sites
- Cooleyella peculiaris2 sites
- Euselachii2 sites
- Haplolepidae2 sites
- Jinogondolella2 sites
- Orodus micropterygius2 sites
- Polyacrodus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 45 sites for Stethacanthulus meccaensis, 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
6 references- New fish assemblages from the Middle Permian from the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas, USA25
- The "Cladodont level" sharks of the Pennsylvanian black shales of central North America10
- Permian chondrichthyans from the Guadalupe Mountains National Park of West Texas (USA)6
- Middle Permian fish microremains from the Early Capitanian of the Guadalupe Mountains, West Texas, USA2
- Late Devonian - Early Permian chondrichthyans of the Russian Arctic1
- The problem of vast numbers of cladodont shark denticles in the Pennsylvanian Excello Shale of Pike County, Indiana1
Each of the 45 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
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No picture of Stethacanthulus meccaensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Stethacanthulus meccaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Stethacanthulus meccaensis 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 itStethacanthulus through timeFormations of the PermianThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Williams 1985)