Dasyatis gigas

No picture of Dasyatis gigas 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 Dasyatis gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasyatisPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes

Time the record covers

At most 2 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 5.333 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Miocene — about 3 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrences7.3–7.2 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.2–7.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.1–7.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences7.0–6.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.9–6.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.8–6.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.7–6.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.6–6.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.5–6.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.4–6.3 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.3–6.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.2–6.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.1–6.0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences6.0–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.9–5.8 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.8–5.7 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.7–5.6 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.6–5.5 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.5–5.4 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences5.4–5.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.75 Mya4.83 Mya

3 occurrences of Dasyatis gigas 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

3 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

1 formation

Esbarrondadoiro — 39.30°N, 8.12°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.11°N, 8.36°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°W

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The named rock units Dasyatis gigas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Dasyatis gigas and its relatives

Miocene

Where Dasyatis gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

59 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Dasyatis gigas, 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

1 reference

Each of the 3 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 Dasyatis gigas 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 Dasyatis gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Dasyatis gigas 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 itDasyatis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Gunther 1870