Synechodus nitidus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SynechodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Synechodontiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Synechodontiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Synechodontiformes

Time the record covers

At least 46 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 10 of 18 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 8 of 18 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences136–134 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences134–133 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences110–108 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 1 occurrence105–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 2 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 2 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 1 occurrence86–84 Mya — about 1 occurrence84–83 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences132.6 Mya85.7 Mya138 Mya83 Mya

18 occurrences of Synechodus nitidus on record, most of them in the Early 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

18 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

5 formations

Hunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WLabguva — 54.88°N, 23.92°ELabguva — 55.09°N, 22.90°EJiesia — 55.06°N, 24.37°ESpeeton Clay — 54.15°N, 0.17°WFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.17°W

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The named rock units Synechodus nitidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Synechodus nitidus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Synechodus nitidus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

57 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Synechodus nitidus, 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

4 references

Each of the 18 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 Synechodus nitidus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

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 Synechodus nitidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Synechodus nitidus was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itSynechodus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1912