Alopiidae

Alopiidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LamniformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 110 million years on record.

The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 0 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 5 of 263 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 66 of 263 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 263 occurrencesEocene — about 73 of 263 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 21 of 263 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 79 of 263 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 13 of 263 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 263 occurrences115–112 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences112–108 Mya — about 3 occurrences108–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–100 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences100–96 Mya — about 7 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 8 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 9 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 7 occurrences85–81 Mya — about 8 occurrences81–77 Mya — about 7 occurrences77–73 Mya — about 7 occurrences73–69 Mya — about 7 occurrences69–65 Mya — about 6 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–50 Mya — about 3 occurrences50–46 Mya — about 7 occurrences46–42 Mya — about 11 occurrences42–38 Mya — about 14 occurrences38–35 Mya — about 30 occurrences35–31 Mya — about 15 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 10 occurrences27–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–19 Mya — about 17 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 20 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 27 occurrences12–7.7 Mya — about 10 occurrences7.7–3.8 Mya — about 12 occurrences3.8–0 Mya — about 11 occurrences110.1 Mya11.7 ka115 Mya0 Mya

263 occurrences of Alopiidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

263 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

107 formations

Gehannam — 29.31°N, 30.18°EGehannam — 29.36°N, 30.16°EGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EChilcatay — 14.62°S, 75.64°WBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.06°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.01°ENavesink — 40.35°N, 74.17°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WQasr el-Sagha — 29.60°N, 30.67°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.29°N, 29.99°ECalvert — 38.17°N, 76.81°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.55°N, 76.52°WBilá — 49.98°N, 15.60°EChucunaque — 9.13°N, 78.75°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.42°N, 100.74°WFox Hills — 46.30°N, 100.33°WMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WMenilite — 49.49°N, 17.79°EMenilite — 49.20°N, 17.20°EGlobigerina Limestone — 36.08°N, 14.24°EGlobigerina Limestone — 35.90°N, 14.33°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°ECantaure — 11.94°N, 70.02°WMenilite — 49.97°N, 21.80°EMenilite — 49.83°N, 22.17°EMenilite — 49.54°N, 22.30°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°EBoom Clay — 51.09°N, 4.40°ETavda — 44.78°N, 33.86°EBoom — 51.09°N, 4.36°ELillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.80°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 30.85°N, 35.85°E

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The named rock units Alopiidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 83 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 73 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Alopiidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Alopiidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,936 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 204 sites for Alopiidae, and this reads all of them. Of that, one read hit the database's own return limit, so every count below is a floor rather than a total. 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

140 references

Each of the 263 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. 128 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 Alopiidae

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

No 3D scan of Alopiidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Bonaparte 1838