Chiloscyllium

Chiloscyllium is a genus of sharks in the family Hemiscylliidae.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
HemiscylliidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 163 million years on record.

The record covers at least 174.7 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 184.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 2 of 123 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 123 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 123 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 8 of 123 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 85 of 123 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 4 of 123 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 123 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 1 of 123 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 123 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 123 occurrences188–182 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences182–175 Mya — about 1 occurrence175–169 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences120–114 Mya — about 3 occurrences114–108 Mya — about 1 occurrence108–102 Mya — about 3 occurrences102–96 Mya — about 12 occurrences96–90 Mya — about 14 occurrences90–83 Mya — about 11 occurrences83–77 Mya — about 21 occurrences77–71 Mya — about 19 occurrences71–65 Mya — about 8 occurrences65–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–53 Mya — about 7 occurrences53–47 Mya — about 8 occurrences47–41 Mya — about 2 occurrences41–34 Mya — about 4 occurrences34–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–16 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences16–9.8 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.8–3.7 Mya — about 1 occurrence174.7 Mya11.63 Mya188 Mya4 Mya

123 occurrences of Chiloscyllium on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

123 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

53 formations

Matam — 15.32°N, 13.03°WMatam — 15.31°N, 13.09°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.88°N, 0.81°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.67°N, 1.10°WCarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 43.40°N, 103.36°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 44.09°N, 104.68°WOldman — 49.10°N, 110.94°WOldman — 49.14°N, 110.85°WOldman — 49.07°N, 110.72°WWahweap — 37.63°N, 112.12°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.35°WDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°WDakota — 38.92°N, 98.50°WDakota — 36.00°N, 111.00°WForemost — 50.07°N, 111.14°WForemost — 49.13°N, 110.87°WMancos Shale — 39.00°N, 110.35°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WBirket Qarun — 29.28°N, 30.04°EGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WHunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.10°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WEutaw — 33.49°N, 88.39°WCacela — 37.08°N, 8.23°WAguja — 28.94°N, 103.37°WBagua — 5.74°S, 78.51°WNew Egypt — 40.09°N, 74.55°WJudith River — 48.03°N, 109.01°WMesaverde — 44.11°N, 107.76°WDonoho Creek — 34.06°N, 79.53°WJbel Tagount — 31.42°N, 6.31°WSamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WBeckum — 51.79°N, 7.99°ETaiba — 15.04°N, 16.82°W

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The named rock units Chiloscyllium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 29 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 42 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Chiloscyllium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Chiloscyllium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,134 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 116 sites for Chiloscyllium, 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

63 references

Each of the 123 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. 51 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 Chiloscyllium

Credit
This illustration was made by Citron You must credit this : Citron / CC-BY-SA-3.0
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
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Specimen
Chiloscyllium plagiosum · l-mc

The description on this site

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CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itHemiscylliidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller and Henle 1837