Ataktobatis variabilis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AtaktobatisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Rajiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Rajiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rajiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Ataktobatis variabilis on record, most of them in the Late 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
1 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Ataktobatis variabilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ataktobatis variabilis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ataktobatis variabilis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
30 taxa- Carcharias gracilis1 site
- Carcharias samhammeri1 site
- Chiloscyllium1 site
- Coupatezia fallax1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cryptodira1 site
- Dalpiazia stromeri1 site
- Ganopristis leptodon1 site
- Hadrosauroidea1 site
- Iberoccitanemys atlanticum1 site
- Mosasaurinae1 site
- Mosasaurus1 site
- Mosasaurus hoffmannii1 site
- Odontaspis bronni1 site
- Ornithopoda1 site
- Palaeogaleus faujasi1 site
- Pancryptodira1 site
- Platecarpus tympaniticus1 site
- Plicatoscyllium minutum1 site
- Prognathodon1 site
- Prognathodon sectorius1 site
- Prognathodon solvayi1 site
- Rhinobatos echavei1 site
- Rhinobatos ibericus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ataktobatis variabilis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Ataktobatis variabilis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Ataktobatis variabilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itAtaktobatis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta and Corral 1999