Eoetmopterus supracretaceus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- EoetmopterusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Eoetmopterus supracretaceus 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
6 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
2 formations
- Northumberland Formation · Nanaimo Group2
- Stromberg Formation1
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The named rock units Eoetmopterus supracretaceus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Eoetmopterus supracretaceus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Eoetmopterus supracretaceus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
78 taxa- Centroscymnus praecursor3 sites
- Scyliorhinidae3 sites
- Squalus vondermarcki3 sites
- Carcharias dominguei2 sites
- Centroscymnus2 sites
- Centrosqualus mustardi2 sites
- Chlamydoselachus balli2 sites
- Crassescyliorhinus germanicus2 sites
- Cretascymnus westfalicus2 sites
- Dykeius garethi2 sites
- Echinorhinus2 sites
- Florenceodon johnyi2 sites
- Hemiscyllium2 sites
- Hessinodon wardi2 sites
- Hexanchus gracilis2 sites
- Hexanchus microdon2 sites
- Komoksodon kwutchakuth2 sites
- Notidanodon pectinatus2 sites
- Paraorthacodus rossi2 sites
- Pristiophorus smithi2 sites
- Protocentrophorus steviae2 sites
- Protoheptranchias lowei2 sites
- Rolfodon ludvigseni2 sites
- Squaliodalatias savoiei2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Eoetmopterus supracretaceus, 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
4 references- A shark fauna from the Campanian of Hornby Island, British Columbia, Canada: an insight into the diversity of Cretaceous deep-water assemblages2
- A neoselachian fauna (Vertebrata, Pisces) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Höver, near Hannover (NW Germany)2
- Selachian teeth from Campanian sediments (Upper Cretaceous) of the Münsterland Cretaceous Basin (NW Germany)1
- Maastrichtian squaloid sharks from southern Sweden1
Each of the 6 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 Eoetmopterus supracretaceus 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 Eoetmopterus supracretaceus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Eoetmopterus supracretaceus 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 itEoetmopterus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Müller and Schöllmann 1989