Cosmopolitodus plicatilis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CosmopolitodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Miocene — about 7 of 10 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 3 of 10 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 0 of 10 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.6–9.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.0–8.4 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences8.4–7.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences7.7–7.1 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences7.1–6.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.5–5.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.9–5.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.2–4.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.6–4.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence4.0–3.3 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences3.3–2.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences2.7–2.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya20.9 Mya2.1 Mya

10 occurrences of Cosmopolitodus plicatilis 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

10 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

5 formations

Pisco — 14.35°S, 75.89°WChagres Sandstone — 9.16°N, 80.29°WChagres Sandstone — 9.28°N, 80.04°WParana — 32.08°S, 60.49°WChilcatay — 14.62°S, 75.63°WKattendijk — 51.25°N, 4.23°E

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The named rock units Cosmopolitodus plicatilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cosmopolitodus plicatilis and its relatives

Miocene

Where Cosmopolitodus plicatilis and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

85 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 10 sites for Cosmopolitodus plicatilis, 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

7 references

Each of the 10 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content0

No picture of Cosmopolitodus plicatilis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and Smithsonian Open Access 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 Cosmopolitodus plicatilis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cosmopolitodus plicatilis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

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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What may have been alongside itCosmopolitodus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

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