Carcharias cuspidatus

Carcharias cuspidatus

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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 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 122 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 6 of 122 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 7 of 122 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 16 of 122 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 19 of 122 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 67 of 122 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 122 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 122 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences99–96 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences96–92 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences92–89 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences89–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–68 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 3 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences48–44 Mya — about 2 occurrences44–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–38 Mya — about 4 occurrences38–34 Mya — about 6 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–24 Mya — about 4 occurrences24–21 Mya — about 8 occurrences21–17 Mya — about 13 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 18 occurrences14–10 Mya — about 17 occurrences10–6.8 Mya — about 8 occurrences6.8–3.4 Mya — about 6 occurrences3.4–0 Mya — about 4 occurrences72.2 Mya129 ka103 Mya0 Mya

122 occurrences of Carcharias cuspidatus 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

122 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

57 formations

Calvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WCalvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WCalvert — 38.16°N, 76.83°WAquia — 40.35°N, 74.25°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.71°N, 77.02°WAquia — 38.58°N, 77.17°WMatawan — 39.07°N, 76.48°WMatawan — 39.03°N, 76.53°WBoom — 51.13°N, 4.27°EBoom — 51.09°N, 4.36°EClayton — 37.18°N, 89.07°WClayton — 37.01°N, 89.86°WNanjemoy — 38.38°N, 77.06°WNanjemoy — 38.41°N, 76.99°WEsbarrondadoiro — 39.30°N, 8.12°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.11°N, 8.36°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WNavidad — 33.91°S, 71.84°WTavda — 55.34°N, 65.35°ETavda — 56.70°N, 63.15°EHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WFilakovo — 48.31°N, 19.70°EGehlberg — 52.22°N, 11.01°ELibano Sandstone — 46.14°N, 12.22°EGrund — 48.63°N, 16.06°EPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WBrackwater Molasse — 48.35°N, 9.86°EStudienka — 48.20°N, 17.98°EBolognano — 42.24°N, 14.04°EKirkwood — 39.30°N, 75.20°WTrent — 35.07°N, 77.15°W

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The named rock units Carcharias cuspidatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 33 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 46 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharias cuspidatus and its relatives

Miocene

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

Found in the same rock

2,367 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 110 sites for Carcharias cuspidatus, 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

77 references

Each of the 122 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. 65 further references are not listed. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Carcharias cuspidatus

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
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)