Gladioserratus aptiensis

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GladioserratusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Hexanchiformes

Time the record covers

At least 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 125.77 Mya to 100.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 93.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 48 of 60 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 12 of 60 occurrencesLate Cretaceous138–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–135 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences132–130 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences130–129 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences129–127 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences127–126 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–123 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121–120 Mya — about 2 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences118–117 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences115–114 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences112–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 2 occurrences109–108 Mya — about 4 occurrences108–107 Mya — about 4 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 7 occurrences105–104 Mya — about 7 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 7 occurrences102–101 Mya — about 7 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 1 occurrence125.77 Mya100.5 Mya137.9 Mya93 Mya

60 occurrences of Gladioserratus aptiensis on record, most of them in the Early 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

60 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

7 formations

Hunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.24°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.26°WGault — 51.94°N, 0.64°WGault — 51.93°N, 0.65°WFerriby — 54.15°N, 0.17°WGearle Siltstone — 23.11°S, 114.18°EWest Melbury Marly Chalk — 52.20°N, 0.13°ELower Chalk — 51.12°N, 1.31°E

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The named rock units Gladioserratus aptiensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Gladioserratus aptiensis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Gladioserratus aptiensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

112 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 60 sites for Gladioserratus aptiensis, 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

11 references

Each of the 60 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 Gladioserratus aptiensis 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 Gladioserratus aptiensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Gladioserratus aptiensis 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 itGladioserratus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Pictet 1865)