Aturobatis aquensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AturobatisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 15 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 41.03 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Aturobatis aquensis 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
2 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
2 formations
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Marnes de Miretrain Formation1
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The named rock units Aturobatis aquensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Aturobatis aquensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aturobatis aquensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
128 taxa- Carcharhinidae2 sites
- Coupatezia2 sites
- Dasyatis2 sites
- Abdounia1 site
- Abdounia beaugei1 site
- Abdounia enniskilleni1 site
- Abdounia minutissima1 site
- Acrosqualiolus mirus1 site
- Aetobatus1 site
- Aetomylaeus1 site
- Albula1 site
- Albula eppsi1 site
- Albula oweni1 site
- Alopias1 site
- Angoumeius paradoxus1 site
- Anomotodon1 site
- Anoxypristis1 site
- Apristurus sereti1 site
- Ariidae1 site
- Balanophyllia1 site
- Balanophyllia desmophyllum1 site
- Brachycarcharias atlasi1 site
- Brachycarcharias lerichei1 site
- Burnhamia daviesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Aturobatis aquensis, 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
2 references- Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths1
- Nouvelle faunes de sélaciens (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) de l'Eocène moyen des Landes (Sud-Ouest, France). Implication dans la connaissance des communautés de sélaciens d'eau profondes1
Each of the 2 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. 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 content0
No picture of Aturobatis aquensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Aturobatis aquensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aturobatis aquensis was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itAturobatis through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adnet 2006