Aetomylaeus

Aetomylaeus is a genus of eagle rays in the family Myliobatidae.

Aetomylaeus

David Sim from London, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0 · 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
MyliobatidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 139 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 51 of 139 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 65 of 139 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 4 of 139 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 16 of 139 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 139 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 139 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 1 occurrence66–63 Mya — about 5 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 11 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 23 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 14 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 5 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 12 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 14 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 12 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 7 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 5 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–26 Mya — about 1 occurrence26–23 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 3 occurrences21–18 Mya — about 3 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.4–6.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.6–3.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.8–960 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72.2 Mya5.333 Mya85 Mya960 ka

139 occurrences of Aetomylaeus on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

139 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

44 formations

Landana — 5.22°S, 12.14°EUmm Himar — 21.18°N, 41.50°EUmm Himar — 21.17°N, 41.42°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WAquia — 38.42°N, 77.26°WAquia — 38.45°N, 77.25°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WAquia — 38.39°N, 77.52°WNanjemoy — 38.87°N, 78.51°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WNanjemoy — 38.38°N, 77.06°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WAmeki — 5.00°N, 7.50°EAmeki — 5.56°N, 7.52°ELisbon — 31.83°N, 88.31°WLisbon — 31.75°N, 88.10°WLisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.59°S, 47.32°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.39°N, 88.69°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 88.50°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WTuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°EDry Branch — 33.62°N, 81.68°WDry Branch — 33.50°N, 84.74°WBrussel Sand — 50.87°N, 4.38°EBrussel Sand — 50.85°N, 4.43°ECantaure — 11.94°N, 70.02°WAlai Beds — 42.00°N, 76.00°EVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WGehlberg — 52.22°N, 11.01°ETuscahoma — 32.35°N, 88.68°WBashi — 32.35°N, 88.68°WJacksonian — 32.74°N, 83.50°WMaria Farinha — 7.88°S, 34.85°W

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The named rock units Aetomylaeus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 29 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Aetomylaeus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Aetomylaeus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,421 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 117 sites for Aetomylaeus, 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

54 references

Each of the 139 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. 42 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 content2

Picture of Aetomylaeus

Credit
David Sim from London, United Kingdom
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Aetomylaeus nichofii · MCZ:Ich:S-1393

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Garman 1908