Elasmodus hunteri
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ElasmodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Chimaeriformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chimaeriformes
Time the record covers
At least 3.2 million years on record.
The record covers at least 59.24 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 23.04 Mya.
7 occurrences of Elasmodus hunteri on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
7 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
5 formations
- London Clay Formation2
- Tuffeau de St-Omer Formation2
- Aquia Formation1
- Chegan Formation1
- Heers Formation1
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The named rock units Elasmodus hunteri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Elasmodus hunteri and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Elasmodus hunteri and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
178 taxa- Carcharias hopei5 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri5 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni4 sites
- Squalus minor4 sites
- Squatina prima4 sites
- Abdounia biauriculata3 sites
- Carcharias macrotus3 sites
- Jaekelotodus robustus3 sites
- Otodus obliquus3 sites
- Pachygaleus lefevrei3 sites
- Palaeogaleus vincenti3 sites
- Palaeohypotodus rutoti3 sites
- Paraorthacodus clarkii3 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti3 sites
- Squalus orpiensis3 sites
- Striatolamia striata3 sites
- Aetobatus irregularis2 sites
- Anomotodon novus2 sites
- Brachaelurus templeuvensis2 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei2 sites
- Carcharias2 sites
- Delpitoscyllium africanum2 sites
- Galeorhinus2 sites
- Glueckmanotodus heinzelini2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Elasmodus hunteri, 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
5 references- Les élasmobranches du Thanétien (Paléocène) du Nord de la France, des carrières de Templeuve et de Leforest2
- Casier, 19662
- Paleocene chimaeroid fishes (Chondrichthyes: Holocephali) from the eastern United States, including two new species of Callorhinchus1
- Systematics of the Cretaceous-Paleogene chimaeroid fish of the genus Elasmodus (Chondrichthyes, Holocephali)1
- Les vertébrés du Landènien inférieur (Lla ou Heersien) de Maret (Hameau d'Orp-le-Grand)1
Each of the 7 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 Elasmodus hunteri was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Elasmodus hunteri, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Elasmodus hunteri 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 itElasmodus through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Egerton 1843