Heterodontus cainozoicus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterodontusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 2.58 Mya.
7 occurrences of Heterodontus cainozoicus 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
7 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
7 formations
- Loxton Formation1
- Grange Burn Formation1
- Jan Juc Formation1
- Maude Formation1
- Fyansford Formation1
- Black Rock Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Heterodontus cainozoicus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heterodontus cainozoicus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Heterodontus cainozoicus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
144 taxa- Carcharodon hastalis4 sites
- Myliobatis4 sites
- Ommatocarcinus corioensis4 sites
- Carcharias taurus3 sites
- Delphinidae3 sites
- Otodus megalodon3 sites
- Oxyrhina minuta3 sites
- Balaenoptera2 sites
- Carcharhinus brachyurus2 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus2 sites
- Carcharodon carcharias2 sites
- Cestracion cainozoicus2 sites
- Cestracion longidens2 sites
- Cetotheriidae2 sites
- Edaphodon sweeti2 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus2 sites
- Ischyodus dolloi2 sites
- Isurus2 sites
- Isurus desori2 sites
- Isurus desorii2 sites
- Isurus retroflexus2 sites
- Lamna apiculata2 sites
- Mysticeti2 sites
- Odontaspis attenuata2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Heterodontus cainozoicus, 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- A review of the Tertiary fossil Cetacea (Mammalia) localities in Australia6
- An early Pliocene shark tooth assemblage in South Australia1
Each of the 7 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 Heterodontus cainozoicus 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 Heterodontus cainozoicus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterodontus cainozoicus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHeterodontus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Pledge 1985