Carcharias macrotus

Carcharias macrota (Agassiz, 1838), a relative of Carcharias macrotus — not Carcharias macrotus itself

Not Carcharias macrotus. This is Carcharias macrota (Agassiz, 1838), a relative — both are Odontaspididae.

Zinsmeister · 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 86 million years on record.

The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 74 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 11 of 74 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 51 of 74 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 3 of 74 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 6 of 74 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 74 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 74 occurrences96–93 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93–89 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences74–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences64–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–58 Mya — about 4 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 10 occurrences55–51 Mya — about 10 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 10 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 4 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 4 occurrences42–39 Mya — about 8 occurrences39–36 Mya — about 7 occurrences36–32 Mya — about 3 occurrences32–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–26 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 1 occurrence23–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–10 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences10–7.1 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences7.1–3.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences3.9–754 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence89.8 Mya3.6 Mya96 Mya754 ka

74 occurrences of Carcharias macrotus 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

74 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

26 formations

London Clay — 51.60°N, 0.19°WLondon Clay — 51.54°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 51.27°N, 0.40°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.08°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.83°N, 1.25°ELondon Clay — 51.53°N, 0.70°ELondon Clay — 51.42°N, 0.75°WLondon Clay — 51.25°N, 0.93°WLondon Clay — 51.90°N, 1.62°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 50.88°N, 1.30°WLondon Clay — 50.80°N, 1.67°WLondon Clay — 51.07°N, 1.74°WAquia — 38.42°N, 77.26°WAquia — 38.45°N, 77.25°WAquia — 38.39°N, 77.52°WAquia — 38.34°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WAquia — 38.71°N, 77.02°WNanjemoy — 38.43°N, 77.18°WNanjemoy — 38.40°N, 76.99°WNanjemoy — 38.87°N, 78.51°WNanjemoy — 38.38°N, 77.06°WNanjemoy — 37.29°N, 77.24°WBarton Beds — 50.74°N, 1.69°WBarton Beds — 50.85°N, 1.78°WBarton Clay — 50.74°N, 1.69°WLandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°EBracklesham Beds — 50.92°N, 1.48°WJan Juc — 38.20°S, 144.27°EKarakane — 34.87°N, 132.05°ECalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WGosport Sand — 31.54°N, 87.52°WLance — 47.12°N, 101.34°WWilliamsburg — 33.43°N, 80.10°WPeace River — 27.50°N, 82.50°WLangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EMorgan Limestone — 34.03°S, 139.65°EMannum — 34.90°S, 139.30°ETortachilla Limestone — 35.23°S, 138.48°EDry Creek Sands — 34.92°S, 138.60°EWoolwich — 51.43°N, 0.06°WYamhill — 45.46°N, 123.18°WSpencer — 44.85°N, 123.42°WScotland — 13.21°N, 59.56°WCarlile — 36.12°N, 104.74°W

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The named rock units Carcharias macrotus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharias macrotus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carcharias macrotus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

842 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 68 sites for Carcharias macrotus, 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

24 references

Each of the 74 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. 12 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 macrota (Agassiz, 1838)

Source
GBIF
Credit
Zinsmeister
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 1838)