Heterodontus sowasheense
No picture of Heterodontus sowasheense 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 sowasheense, 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 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 Heterodontus sowasheense 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
2 formations
- Bashi Formation1
- Fishburne Formation · Black Mingo Group1
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The named rock units Heterodontus sowasheense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heterodontus sowasheense and its relatives
EoceneWhere Heterodontus sowasheense and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
41 taxa- Abdounia beaugei2 sites
- Anomotodon2 sites
- Brachycarcharias mississippiensis2 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi2 sites
- Coupatezia2 sites
- Hypolophodon dockeryi2 sites
- Meridiania convexa2 sites
- Nebrius thielensi2 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti2 sites
- Rhinobatos2 sites
- Striatolamia macrota2 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni1 site
- Archaeomanta melenhorsti1 site
- Brachycarcharias lerichei1 site
- Burnhamia fetahi1 site
- Dasyatis tricuspidatus1 site
- Eorhinoptera grabdai1 site
- Eotorpedo1 site
- Eotorpedo hilgendorfi1 site
- Galeorhinus1 site
- Galeorhinus minor1 site
- Galeus1 site
- Ginglymostoma subafricanum1 site
- Gnathophis meridies1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Heterodontus sowasheense, 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 new elasmobranch assemblage from the early Eocene (Ypresian) Fishburne Formation of Berkeley County, South Carolina, USA1
- 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
Media content0
No picture of Heterodontus sowasheense 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 sowasheense, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterodontus sowasheense 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeterodontus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case 1994