Carcharias contortidens

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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 34 million years on record.

The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Eocene — about 2 of 24 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 24 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 8 of 24 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 24 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 24 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–32 Mya — about 2 occurrences32–30 Mya — about 2 occurrences30–28 Mya — about 2 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 2 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 1 occurrence25–24 Mya — about 1 occurrence24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences11–9.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences9.6–8.0 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences8.0–6.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.4–4.8 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences4.8–3.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.2–1.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence37.71 Mya3.6 Mya49 Mya1.7 Mya

24 occurrences of Carcharias contortidens on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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

24 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

16 formations

Boom — 51.09°N, 4.36°EBoom — 51.11°N, 4.33°ELibano Sandstone — 46.14°N, 12.22°ELangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EPort Willunga — 35.32°S, 138.45°EDry Creek Sands — 34.92°S, 138.60°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.98°S, 145.05°EOmihi — 43.55°S, 171.73°EOamaru — 43.23°S, 171.72°EJan Juc — 38.20°S, 144.27°ECalder River Limestone — 38.78°S, 143.43°EFyansford — 38.24°S, 145.03°ESables de Kerniel — 50.88°N, 5.59°EArgille Azzurre — 44.30°N, 11.57°EGliwice — 50.31°N, 18.61°ESaloum — 14.96°N, 17.05°WUpper Marine Molasse — 48.56°N, 10.06°E

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The named rock units Carcharias contortidens has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharias contortidens and its relatives

Oligocene

Where Carcharias contortidens and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.

Found in the same rock

352 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Carcharias contortidens, 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

13 references

Each of the 24 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Carcharias contortidens was found. Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

Wikipedia 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 Carcharias contortidens, 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 itCarcharias through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on

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