Etmopterus

Etmopterus is a genus of lantern sharks in the squaliform family Etmopteridae. They are found in deep sea ecosystems of the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Etmopterus

SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC · Public Domain · via Wikipedia/Commons. 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
EtmopteridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes

Time the record covers

At least 199 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 774 ka.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 37 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 37 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 3 of 37 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesEocene — about 9 of 37 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesMiocene — about 19 of 37 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 37 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 37 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 2 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 8 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 2 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 16 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 1 occurrence7.0–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences201.4 Mya1.8 Mya210 Mya0 Mya

37 occurrences of Etmopterus on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

37 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

14 formations

Marnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WLaksarska Nova Ves — 48.59°N, 17.38°ENeuhofen — 48.50°N, 14.28°EEbelsberg — 48.24°N, 13.99°EKuma — 45.10°N, 34.63°EJiesia — 55.08°N, 24.44°ELabguva — 54.92°N, 23.85°EBissex Hill — 13.22°N, 59.55°WBath — 13.18°N, 59.47°WHigashibessho — 36.60°N, 137.07°EIseyama — 36.42°N, 138.30°ETeplice — 50.40°N, 13.94°ECubagua — 10.60°N, 64.24°WMakino — 34.75°N, 136.27°E

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The named rock units Etmopterus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 12 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Etmopterus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Etmopterus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

242 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 36 sites for Etmopterus, 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

15 references

Each of the 37 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. 3 further references are not listed. 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 content2

Picture of Etmopterus

Credit
SEFSC Pascagoula Laboratory; Collection of Brandi Noble, NOAA/NMFS/SEFSC
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

CT scan

Licence
In Copyright
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record
Specimen
Etmopterus virens · TCWC:Ichthyology:6383.06

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itEtmopteridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1810