Distobatidae
No picture of Distobatidae 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 Distobatidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HybodontiformesPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Distobatidae 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
14 occurrencesThese 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
7 formations
- Bahariya Formation8
- Gara Sbaa Formation · Kem Kem Group1
- Mizdah Formation1
- Khodzhakul Formation1
- Baharîje Formation1
- Grès rouges Formation1
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The named rock units Distobatidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Distobatidae and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Distobatidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
137 taxa- Distobatus nutiae7 sites
- Onchopristis numidus6 sites
- Asteracanthus aegyptiacus5 sites
- Enchodontidae4 sites
- Hybodus aschersoni4 sites
- Lissodus bartheli4 sites
- Marckgrafia libyca4 sites
- Aegyptobatus kuehnei3 sites
- Crocodylia3 sites
- Enchodus3 sites
- Peyeria libyca3 sites
- Sechmetia aegyptiaca3 sites
- Spinosaurus aegyptiacus3 sites
- Squalicorax baharijensis3 sites
- Testudines3 sites
- Calamopleurus africanus2 sites
- Coelodus2 sites
- Coelurosauria2 sites
- Distobatus2 sites
- Haimirichia amonensis2 sites
- Lepidotes2 sites
- Lepisosteidae2 sites
- Mawsonia libyca2 sites
- Neoceratodus africanus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Distobatidae, 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
6 references- Die Elasmobranchier-Fauna des Gebel Dist Member der Bahariya Formation (Obercenoman) der Oase Bahariya, Ägypten9
- The “mid”-Cretaceous (Lower Cenomanian) continental vertebrates of Gara Samani, Algeria. Sedimentological framework and palaeodiversity1
- Overabundance of piscivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) in the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa: the Algerian dilemma1
- A new locality of Late Cretaceous snakes, mammals and other vertebrates in Africa (western Libya)1
- Predatory dinosaurs from the Sahara and Late Cretaceous faunal differentiation1
- Dinozavri severnoi Yevrazii: Novye dannye o sostave kompleksov, ekologii i paleobiogeografii [Dinosaurs of northern Eurasia: new data about assemblages, ecology, and paleobiogeography]1
Each of the 14 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
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No picture of Distobatidae 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 Distobatidae, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Distobatidae 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 itHybodontiformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Werner 1989