Coupatezia fallax
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CoupateziaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Coupatezia fallax on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
8 occurrences- Late Cretaceous82%
- Paleocene18%
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
3 formations
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The named rock units Coupatezia fallax has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Coupatezia fallax and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Coupatezia fallax and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
113 taxa- Ixobatis mucronata5 sites
- Coupatezia elevata4 sites
- Ginglymostoma botmaense4 sites
- Plicatoscyllium youssoufiaense4 sites
- Rhombodus binkhorsti4 sites
- Carcharias samhammeri3 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata3 sites
- Ganntouria variabilis3 sites
- Ganopristis leptodon3 sites
- Prognathodon3 sites
- Rhombodus microdon3 sites
- Serratolamna serrata3 sites
- Squalicorax pristodontus3 sites
- Coupatezia laevis2 sites
- Coupatezia reniformis2 sites
- Dalpiazia stromeri2 sites
- Danogaleus gueriri2 sites
- Dasyatis hexagonalis2 sites
- Dasyatis tetraedra2 sites
- Foumtizia abdouni2 sites
- Foumtizia gadaensis2 sites
- Ginglymostoma pectinatum2 sites
- Ginglymostoma subafricanum2 sites
- Heterotorpedo lyazidii2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Coupatezia fallax, 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
4 references- Les Orectolobiformes, Carcharhiniformes et Myliobatiformes (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc (Maastrichtien-Lutétien basal). Systématique, biostratigraphie, évolution et dynamique des faunes5
- Upper Maastrichtian shallow marine environments and neoselachian assemblages in North Iberian palaeomargin (Castilian Ramp, Spain)1
- Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology1
- Upper Maastrichtian selachians from the Condado de Treviño (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula)1
Each of the 8 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. 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 content0
No picture of Coupatezia fallax was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Coupatezia fallax, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Coupatezia fallax was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.
MorphoSource 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 itCoupatezia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arambourg 1952)