Cretalamna biauriculata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CretalamnaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
19 occurrences of Cretalamna biauriculata 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
19 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
6 formations
- Amman Formation3
- Chibuete Formation2
- Mishash Formation1
- Peedee Formation1
- Phosphorite Unit Formation · Balqa Group1
- Cap de Naze Formation1
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The named rock units Cretalamna biauriculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cretalamna biauriculata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cretalamna biauriculata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
126 taxa- Squalicorax pristodontus13 sites
- Rhombodus binkhorsti8 sites
- Squalicorax bassanii8 sites
- Enchodus elegans7 sites
- Chelonioidea6 sites
- Dalpiazia stromeri6 sites
- Elasmosauridae6 sites
- Parapalaeobates atlanticus6 sites
- Squalicorax africanus6 sites
- Teleostei6 sites
- Carcharias5 sites
- Ctenopristis5 sites
- Plicatoscyllium5 sites
- Plioplatecarpinae5 sites
- Rhinobatos5 sites
- Rhombodus meridionalis5 sites
- Schizorhiza stromeri5 sites
- Squalicorax5 sites
- Squalicorax kaupi5 sites
- Stephanodus5 sites
- Coupatezia4 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata4 sites
- Cretalamna maroccana4 sites
- Hypsobatis4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 19 sites for Cretalamna biauriculata, 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
10 references- Sélaciens du Crétacé (Albien-Maastrichtien) d'Angola4
- The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria4
- A selachian fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Jordan3
- Découverte de nouvelles faunes de sélaciens (Neoselachii) dans les phosphates maastrichtiens de la Mer Rouge, Egypte2
- Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology1
- A neoselachian shark fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Senegal1
- Marine reptiles from the Late Cretaceous Phosphates of Jordan: palaeobiogeographical implications1
- New biostratigraphical data on the marine Upper Cretaceous and Palaeogene of Jordan1
- Senonian elasmobranch teeth from Israel. Biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental implications1
- Cretaceous selachians from the Peedee Formation (Late Maestrichtian) of Duplin County, North Carolina1
Each of the 19 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.
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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 Cretalamna biauriculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretalamna biauriculata was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were 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 itCretalamna through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Wanner 1902)