Carcharias acutissimus

Carcharias acutissimus

J Athersuch · 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
CarchariasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Paleocene — about 0 of 86 occurrencesEocene — about 11 of 86 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 86 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 48 of 86 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 7 of 86 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 86 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 2 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–38 Mya — about 1 occurrence38–36 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences34–32 Mya — about 4 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 4 occurrences30–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 4 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 2 occurrences25–23 Mya — about 2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–19 Mya — about 5 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 12 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 5 occurrences11–9.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.5–7.6 Mya — about 2 occurrences7.6–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–3.8 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.8–1.9 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences1.9–0 Mya — about 1 occurrence48.07 Mya129 ka57 Mya0 Mya

86 occurrences of Carcharias acutissimus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

86 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

38 formations

Berchem — 51.19°N, 4.42°EBoom Clay — 51.12°N, 4.35°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°EBoom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WCamacho — 33.94°S, 58.38°WMalembo — 5.36°S, 12.18°EMalembo — 5.34°S, 12.18°EBreda — 51.97°N, 6.73°EBreda — 52.15°N, 6.61°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.21°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WVille — 50.90°N, 6.45°EFilakovo — 48.31°N, 19.70°ELoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EGrund — 48.63°N, 16.06°EPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EBolognano — 42.24°N, 14.04°ETrent — 35.07°N, 77.15°WJacksonian — 32.74°N, 83.50°WMelker Sand — 48.29°N, 15.59°ESaint Marys — 38.24°N, 76.50°WAlzey — 49.83°N, 7.72°EBredasdorp — 33.88°S, 18.45°ELeitha Limestone — 50.52°N, 20.53°EOnzole — 0.63°S, 80.47°WKiev — 49.08°N, 33.13°E

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The named rock units Carcharias acutissimus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 30 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharias acutissimus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Carcharias acutissimus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,639 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 76 sites for Carcharias acutissimus, 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

54 references

Each of the 86 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. 42 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 Carcharias acutissimus

Source
GBIF
Credit
J Athersuch
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1843)