Heterotorpedo

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DasyatoideaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 37.71 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 25 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 14 of 25 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 10 of 25 occurrencesEocene73–72 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 2 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–60 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–39 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences61.66 Mya41.03 Mya72.9 Mya37 Mya

25 occurrences of Heterotorpedo on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

25 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

12 formations

Couche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WCouche II — 32.65°N, 6.68°WWittering — 50.94°N, 1.35°WWittering — 50.76°N, 0.88°WMarsh Farm — 50.75°N, 0.83°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WWilliamsburg — 33.28°N, 79.64°WKapurdi — 25.96°N, 71.35°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°ESables d'Auvers — 49.17°N, 2.21°EEarnley — 50.75°N, 0.83°WCambay Shale — 21.40°N, 73.08°EKhuiala — 27.17°N, 70.50°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°E

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The named rock units Heterotorpedo has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Heterotorpedo and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Heterotorpedo and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

310 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 25 sites for Heterotorpedo, 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

10 references

Each of the 25 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 Heterotorpedo 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 Heterotorpedo, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Heterotorpedo 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 itDasyatoidea through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Ward 1983