Gomphogaleus rodgersi
No picture of Gomphogaleus rodgersi 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 Gomphogaleus rodgersi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GomphogaleusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Gomphogaleus rodgersi on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Gomphogaleus rodgersi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Gomphogaleus rodgersi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Gomphogaleus rodgersi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
116 taxa- Brachycarcharias lerichei2 sites
- Coupatezia2 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Nebrius thielensi2 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri2 sites
- Pachygaleus lefevrei2 sites
- Physogaleus2 sites
- Striatolamia macrota2 sites
- Sylvestrilamia teretidens2 sites
- Abdounia beaugei1 site
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Alethinophidia1 site
- Allaeochelys1 site
- Allognathosuchus1 site
- Anguidae1 site
- Anguinae1 site
- Anguini1 site
- Anguis1 site
- Anomotodon1 site
- Arcius lapparenti1 site
- Asiatosuchus depressifrons1 site
- Axestemys vittata1 site
- Axonoscincus sabatieri1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Gomphogaleus rodgersi, 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
2 references- New fossil triakid sharks from the early Eocene of Prémontré, France, and comments on fossil record of the family1
- Fossil fish remains from the Late Paleocene Tuscahoma and Early Eocene Bashi Formations of Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi, Part I. Selachians1
Each of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Gomphogaleus rodgersi 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 Gomphogaleus rodgersi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Gomphogaleus rodgersi 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 itGomphogaleus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Case 1994)