Echinorhinus pozzii

Diego Almendras · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EchinorhinusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Echinorhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Echinorhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Echinorhiniformes
Time the record covers
At most 7.1 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 23.04 Mya and 15.98 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Echinorhinus pozzii 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
4 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Echinorhinus pozzii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Echinorhinus pozzii and its relatives
MioceneWhere Echinorhinus pozzii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
28 taxa- Anseriformes1 site
- Aondelphis talen1 site
- Argyrocetus patagonicus1 site
- Arthrodytes1 site
- Carcharodon1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Carcharoides catticus1 site
- Discinisca porvenir1 site
- Eretiscus tonnii1 site
- Eurhinodelphinidae1 site
- Galeocerdo aduncus1 site
- Helianthochelys redondita1 site
- Heterodontus1 site
- Idiorophus patagonicus1 site
- Kentriodon1 site
- Kentriodontidae1 site
- Labrodon1 site
- Lamna1 site
- Megascyliorhinus trelewensis1 site
- Molidae1 site
- Myliobatoidea1 site
- Palaeospheniscus1 site
- Physeteroidea1 site
- Prosqualodon australis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Echinorhinus pozzii, 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
2 references- The fossil record of the bramble-shark Echinorhinus (Echinorhiniformes, Echinorhinidae) in South America3
- A New Megascyliorhinus (Chondrichthyes, Galeomorphii) from the Middle Tertiary of Patagonia1
Each of the 4 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 content1

Picture of Echinorhinus pozzii
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Diego Almendras
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Echinorhinus pozzii 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itEchinorhinus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ameghino 1906