Heterodontus carerens

No picture of Heterodontus carerens 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 carerens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 35 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 85.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 83.6 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 1 of 2 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences121.4 Mya85.7 Mya126.6 Mya82.8 Mya

2 occurrences of Heterodontus carerens 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

2 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

1 formation

Kashima — 43.07°N, 142.11°E

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The named rock units Heterodontus carerens 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.

Heterodontus carerens and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Heterodontus carerens and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

14 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heterodontus carerens, 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

2 references

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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Heterodontus carerens 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 carerens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heterodontus carerens 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 itHeterodontus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Kriwet 1999