Archaeomanta

Archaeomanta

R Fowler · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
MobulidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 38 occurrencesPaleocene — about 9 of 38 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 29 of 38 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 38 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–56 Mya — about 1 occurrence56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 1 occurrence47–45 Mya — about 1 occurrence45–44 Mya — about 1 occurrence44–43 Mya — about 1 occurrence43–42 Mya — about 1 occurrence42–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–40 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences61.66 Mya37.71 Mya66.6 Mya33.3 Mya

38 occurrences of Archaeomanta 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

38 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

13 formations

Couche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WCouche II — 32.65°N, 6.68°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WQasr el-Sagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.30°N, 29.99°EBirket Qarun — 29.28°N, 30.03°ERishtan — 41.65°N, 64.69°EBashi — 32.35°N, 88.68°WSamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EKuma — 45.10°N, 34.63°ECouche I — 32.85°N, 6.63°WTavda — 56.70°N, 63.15°E

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The named rock units Archaeomanta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 19 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Archaeomanta and its relatives

Eocene

Where Archaeomanta and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

511 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 33 sites for Archaeomanta, 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

18 references

Each of the 38 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. 6 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 Archaeomanta

Source
GBIF
Credit
R Fowler
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Archaeomanta 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 itMobulidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herman 1979