Abdounia beaugei

Abdounia beaugei is an extinct species of requiem shark from the Paleocene and Eocene epochs of the Paleogene period. It is primarily known from fossil teeth, which can be found in North Africa, Europe, and North America.

Abdounia beaugei

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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
AbdouniaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Paleocene — about 1 of 44 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 43 of 44 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 44 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–54 Mya — about 3 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 3 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 3 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 3 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 3 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 3 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 2 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 2 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56 Mya41.03 Mya59.7 Mya33.4 Mya

44 occurrences of Abdounia beaugei on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

44 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

23 formations

Osinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.93°EOsinovaya — 48.45°N, 41.82°ETallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EKortrijk Clay — 50.80°N, 3.22°ESimferopol — 45.17°N, 34.60°ESimferopol — 45.11°N, 34.70°EBarton Clay — 51.02°N, 1.32°WRishtan — 41.65°N, 64.69°ETuscahoma — 32.35°N, 88.68°WBashi — 32.35°N, 88.68°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WFishburne — 33.28°N, 79.64°WCouche I — 32.72°N, 6.78°ELandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°EMarnes de Gan — 43.23°N, 0.40°WMaldegem — 50.98°N, 4.32°EMons-en-Pévèle Sand — 50.81°N, 4.33°EAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°EAalter — 50.79°N, 2.78°EAlgarrobo Beds — 33.36°S, 71.68°WTurkestan — 41.65°N, 64.66°ESuzak — 41.65°N, 64.66°EAlay — 41.65°N, 64.66°E

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The named rock units Abdounia beaugei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Abdounia beaugei and its relatives

Eocene

Where Abdounia beaugei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

548 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 44 sites for Abdounia beaugei, 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

23 references

Each of the 44 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. 11 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 Abdounia beaugei

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

The description on this site

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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 itAbdounia through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arambourg 1935)