Hemipristis heteropleurus
No picture of Hemipristis heteropleurus 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 Hemipristis heteropleurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HemipristisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Time the record covers
At least 10 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
4 occurrences of Hemipristis heteropleurus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 occurrencesThese 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 Hemipristis heteropleurus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Hemipristis heteropleurus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Hemipristis heteropleurus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
13 taxa- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Pacipecten andersoni2 sites
- Carcharhinus1 site
- Carcharhinus antiquus1 site
- Carcharocles rectus1 site
- Carcharodon1 site
- Carcharodon arnoldi1 site
- Cetacea1 site
- Ficus1 site
- Geocarcinidae indet.1 site
- Murex1 site
- Rhinoptera smithi1 site
- Strombus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hemipristis heteropleurus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
3 references- Reconnaissance of the geology and oil possibilities of Baja California, Mexico2
- Pliocene fossils from Rancho El Refugio, Baja California and Cerralvo Island, Mexico1
- Fossil Fishes of the Miocene (Monterey) Formations1
Each of the 4 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
Media content0
No picture of Hemipristis heteropleurus 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 Hemipristis heteropleurus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Hemipristis heteropleurus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHemipristis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1844