Isurus desori

Isurus desori, commonly known as the Desori mako shark or Desori shark, is an extinct species of mako shark, that lived in the Early Oligocene and Middle Miocene, between 32.5 and 12.1 million years ago. It measured 4.2 m (14 ft) long.

Isurus desori

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
IsurusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 47 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 47 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 10 of 47 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 34 of 47 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 47 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 47 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 2 occurrences31–28 Mya — about 3 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 3 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 2 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 3 occurrences17–14 Mya — about 9 occurrences14–11 Mya — about 10 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 5 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 2 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72.2 Mya5.333 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

47 occurrences of Isurus desori 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

47 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

29 formations

Esbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°WEsbarrondadoiro — 39.30°N, 8.12°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.11°N, 8.36°WJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°EJan Juc — 38.20°S, 144.27°EBerchem — 51.19°N, 4.42°EFilakovo — 48.31°N, 19.70°EPort Campbell Limestone — 37.72°S, 141.93°EClifton — 38.48°S, 143.58°EBatesford Limestone — 38.09°S, 144.28°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°ETsurushi — 38.01°N, 138.27°EChilcatay — 14.59°S, 75.66°WArenas de Huelva — 37.33°N, 6.68°WRzehakia — 48.33°N, 14.30°EStatenville — 30.40°N, 83.00°WWajimazaki — 37.40°N, 136.90°ESekinobana — 37.21°N, 136.69°EMaenami — 37.21°N, 137.07°EHannoura — 37.11°N, 137.95°ESuso — 37.12°N, 137.95°ECurré — 8.86°N, 83.08°WTotoro — 38.68°S, 174.62°EConway — 42.58°S, 173.49°EOidawara — 35.52°N, 137.08°EOi — 35.08°N, 137.18°EKimachi — 35.42°N, 132.95°E

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The named rock units Isurus desori has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Isurus desori and its relatives

Miocene

Where Isurus desori and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

451 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 46 sites for Isurus desori, 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

27 references

Each of the 47 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. 15 further references are not listed. 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 content1

Picture of Isurus desori

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Isurus desori 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itIsurus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Sismonda 1849)