Brachycarcharias twiggsensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachycarchariasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
38 occurrences of Brachycarcharias twiggsensis 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- 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
21 formations
- Gehannam Formation7
- Birket Qarun Formation5
- Dammam Formation5
- Samlat Formation2
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Qasr ElSagha Formation2
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The named rock units Brachycarcharias twiggsensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachycarcharias twiggsensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Brachycarcharias twiggsensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
340 taxa- Myliobatis15 sites
- Propristis schweinfurthi14 sites
- Carcharhinus13 sites
- Hemipristis curvatus12 sites
- Macrorhizodus praecursor11 sites
- Misrichthys stromeri11 sites
- Carcharhinus frequens10 sites
- Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi10 sites
- Rhizoprionodon10 sites
- Pristis lathami9 sites
- Paralopias alabamensis8 sites
- Rhinoptera8 sites
- Galeocerdo7 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens7 sites
- Nebrius thielensi7 sites
- Sphyraena7 sites
- Abdounia6 sites
- Abdounia minutissima6 sites
- Galeocerdo eaglesomei6 sites
- Physogaleus6 sites
- Physogaleus tertius6 sites
- Abdounia enniskilleni5 sites
- Anoxypristis mucrodens5 sites
- Galeocerdo clarkensis5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Brachycarcharias twiggsensis, 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
14 references- Sharks and rays from the Mokattamian Stage (middle and late Eocene) of Egypt, including some species from the middle Eocene Midra Shale of Qatar14
- Shark and ray faunas in the Middle and Late Eocene of the Fayum Area, Egypt8
- Late Eocene fishes from the Tupelo Bay Formation of South Carolina, USA2
- 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 otoliths2
- A Middle–Late Eocene vertebrate fauna (marine fish and mammals) from southwestern Morocco; preliminary report: age and palaeobiogeographical implications2
- The Eocene selachian fauna from the Fayum Depression in Egypt2
- Qualitative and quantitative analyses of Middle Eocene odontaspidid shark (Brachycarcharias) from Wadi Garawi area, north Eastern Desert, Egypt1
- Middle Eocene vertebrates from the sabkha of Gueran, Atlantic coastal basin, Saharan Morocco, and their peri-African correlations1
- The Turanian Basin in the Eocene: the new data on the fossil sharks and rays from the Kyzylkum Desert (Uzbekistan)1
- Priabonian sharks and rays (Late Eocene: Neoselachii) from Minqar Tabaghbagh in the Western Qattara Depression, Egypt1
- A new Priabonian Chondrichthyans assemblage from the Western desert, Egypt: Correlation with the Fayum oasis1
- New tropical carcharhinids (Chondrichthyes, Carcharhiniformes) from the late Eocene-early Oligocene of Balochistan, Pakistan: Paleoenvironmental and paleogeographic implications1
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. 2 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.
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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 Brachycarcharias twiggsensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachycarcharias twiggsensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Case 1981)