Galeomorphi

Galeomorphi is a superorder of sharks. They are sometimes called galea or galean sharks. There are about 300 living species in 23 families. Galean sharks are divided into four orders: the Heterodontiformes, Orectolobiformes, Lamniformes, and Carcharhiniformes. The extinct, enigmatic Synechodontiformes are presently placed by some authors in the galeomorphs, but their taxonomic position still remains uncertain.

Galeomorphi

Pterantula (Terry Goss) at en.wikipedia · CC BY 2.5 · 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
ElasmobranchiiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 346 million years on record.

The record covers at least 346.7 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 358.86 Mya to 0 Mya.

Devonian — about 0 of 2152 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 2 of 2152 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 3 of 2152 occurrencesPermianEarly Triassic — about 46 of 2152 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 42 of 2152 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 130 of 2152 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 126 of 2152 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 69 of 2152 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 57 of 2152 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 234 of 2152 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 764 of 2152 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 141 of 2152 occurrencesEocene — about 406 of 2152 occurrencesOligocene — about 22 of 2152 occurrencesMiocene — about 85 of 2152 occurrencesPliocene — about 11 of 2152 occurrencesPleistocene — about 13 of 2152 occurrences366–354 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences354–342 Mya — about 1 occurrence342–329 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences329–317 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences305–293 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences293–281 Mya — about 2 occurrences268–256 Mya — about 1 occurrence256–244 Mya — about 59 occurrences244–232 Mya — about 42 occurrences232–220 Mya — about 17 occurrences220–207 Mya — about 11 occurrences207–195 Mya — about 102 occurrences195–183 Mya — about 37 occurrences183–171 Mya — about 91 occurrences171–159 Mya — about 55 occurrences159–146 Mya — about 53 occurrences146–134 Mya — about 23 occurrences134–122 Mya — about 33 occurrences122–110 Mya — about 54 occurrences110–98 Mya — about 175 occurrences98–85 Mya — about 115 occurrences85–73 Mya — about 308 occurrences73–61 Mya — about 354 occurrences61–49 Mya — about 201 occurrences49–37 Mya — about 232 occurrences37–24 Mya — about 72 occurrences24–12 Mya — about 58 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 56 occurrences346.7 Mya11.7 ka366 Mya0 Mya

2,152 occurrences of Galeomorphi on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

2,152 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

330 formations

Hunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WMesaverde — 42.85°N, 107.28°WMesaverde — 44.08°N, 107.74°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.75°WMesaverde — 44.17°N, 107.81°WMatam — 15.32°N, 13.03°WMatam — 15.31°N, 13.09°WWestbury — 53.03°N, 0.81°WWestbury — 51.60°N, 2.63°WWestbury — 51.24°N, 2.34°WWestbury — 51.82°N, 2.41°WWestbury — 51.93°N, 2.17°WWestbury — 50.72°N, 3.05°WWestbury — 50.78°N, 2.99°WWestbury — 52.91°N, 0.90°WWestbury — 51.18°N, 3.38°WMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.24°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.26°WTaho Limestone — 33.37°N, 132.67°EBurim — 49.71°N, 31.54°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WHell Creek — 46.41°N, 103.94°WHell Creek — 46.33°N, 103.90°WHell Creek — 47.57°N, 107.10°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.42°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 47.07°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 47.27°N, 107.13°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WHell Creek — 45.05°N, 101.97°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.88°N, 0.81°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.67°N, 1.10°WJudith River — 46.10°N, 109.10°WJudith River — 48.03°N, 109.01°WJudith River — 47.79°N, 108.94°WJudith River — 48.01°N, 108.91°WJudith River — 48.25°N, 109.30°WJudith River — 47.74°N, 108.96°WJudith River — 48.07°N, 108.93°WJudith River — 46.42°N, 109.27°WMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WCouche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WCouche II — 32.72°N, 6.78°WCouche II — 32.65°N, 6.68°WLower Kimmeridge marls — 51.90°N, 10.51°EGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EHythe — 51.19°N, 0.73°EHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.10°WLaird — 56.16°N, 122.55°WLaird — 56.10°N, 122.87°WLaird — 56.07°N, 123.16°WFox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.26°N, 100.51°WLandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°EPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 0.63°S, 47.54°WPirabas — 0.66°S, 47.22°WMiddle Kimmeridge marls — 51.90°N, 10.51°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°ETallahatta — 31.20°N, 85.48°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.57°N, 88.34°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°W

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The named rock units Galeomorphi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 306 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 753 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Galeomorphi and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Galeomorphi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,227 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records at least 990 sites for Galeomorphi, and this reads 240 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

452 references

Each of the 2,152 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. 440 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 content1

Picture of Galeomorphi

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Pterantula (Terry Goss) at en.wikipedia
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CC BY 2.5
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No 3D scan of Galeomorphi 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.

The description on this site

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

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Compagno 1973)