Heterodontus woodwardi
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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 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
7 occurrences of Heterodontus woodwardi on record, most of them in the Eocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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 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
3 formations
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group4
- Elmore Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
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The named rock units Heterodontus woodwardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Heterodontus woodwardi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Heterodontus woodwardi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
191 taxa- Hypotodus verticalis7 sites
- Aetobatus irregularis6 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni6 sites
- Aetomylaeus striatus6 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei6 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi6 sites
- Chelone6 sites
- Conger6 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus6 sites
- Dasyatis jaekeli6 sites
- Eotrigonodon serratus6 sites
- Galeorhinus ypresiensis6 sites
- Isurus praecursor6 sites
- Jaekelotodus trigonalis6 sites
- Notorhynchus6 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri6 sites
- Palaeocybium proosti6 sites
- Platylaemus colei6 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti6 sites
- Pristis lathami6 sites
- Prolates6 sites
- Rhynchobatus vincenti6 sites
- Scyliorhinus6 sites
- Sparus6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Heterodontus woodwardi, 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
3 references- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)5
- Stratigraphy and Biota of the Elmore Formation (Huntingbridge division, Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, Hampshire1
- The Eocene fishes of Alabama1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Heterodontus woodwardi 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 woodwardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterodontus woodwardi 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Casier 1946