Cetorhinus

Cetorhinus

Green Fire Productions · CC BY 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
CetorhinidaePBDB
Diet
suspension feeder, carnivorePBDB, for Cetorhinidae
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Cetorhinidae
Motility
fast-movingPBDB, for Cetorhinidae

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 27.3 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 33.9 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Eocene — about 0 of 67 occurrencesOligocene — about 7 of 67 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 38 of 67 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 16 of 67 occurrencesPleistocene — about 6 of 67 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence32–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–30 Mya — about 1 occurrence30–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–28 Mya — about 1 occurrence28–27 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 6 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 7 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–10 Mya — about 2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences5.8–4.6 Mya — about 5 occurrences4.6–3.5 Mya — about 7 occurrences3.5–2.3 Mya — about 4 occurrences2.3–1.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence1.2–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences27.3 Mya129 ka34.6 Mya0 Mya

67 occurrences of Cetorhinus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

67 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

30 formations

Astoria — 43.36°N, 124.31°WAstoria — 44.72°N, 124.06°WAstoria — 46.27°N, 123.68°WPurisima — 37.29°N, 122.41°WBerchem — 51.19°N, 4.42°EYamaga — 33.99°N, 130.82°ECalvert — 38.17°N, 76.81°WCalvert — 38.53°N, 76.52°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.60°N, 117.88°WPalos Verdes Sand — 33.75°N, 118.29°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.46°N, 118.92°WRound Mountain Silt — 35.44°N, 118.90°WGram — 55.31°N, 9.06°EGram — 55.28°N, 9.00°EOosterhout — 51.70°N, 5.73°EBreda — 52.15°N, 6.61°EBreda — 51.47°N, 5.80°ETemblor — 35.47°N, 118.91°WKattendijk — 51.26°N, 4.27°EYsidro — 26.23°N, 112.50°WMonterey — 33.56°N, 117.71°WJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WMenilite — 49.49°N, 17.79°ETirabuzón — 27.37°N, 112.29°WMaenami — 37.21°N, 137.07°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WPort Orford — 42.81°N, 124.53°WDuho — 36.10°N, 129.40°ELa Portada — 23.11°S, 70.36°W

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The named rock units Cetorhinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cetorhinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cetorhinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,313 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 65 sites for Cetorhinus, 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

41 references

Each of the 67 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. 29 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 content2

Picture of Cetorhinus

Credit
Green Fire Productions
Licence
CC BY 2.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Cetorhinus maximus · L-MEP:BA18_728.3FL_female

Smithsonian Open Access was 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. de Blainville 1816