Mafdetia tibniensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MafdetiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Rajiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Rajiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rajiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Mafdetia tibniensis on record, most of them in the Late 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
6 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
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The named rock units Mafdetia tibniensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Mafdetia tibniensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Mafdetia tibniensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Baharipristis bastetiae5 sites
- Pycnodontiformes4 sites
- Damonella2 sites
- Ilyocypris2 sites
- Aegyptobatus kuehnei1 site
- Asteracanthus aegyptiacus1 site
- Chiloscyllium mereretiae1 site
- Cypridea1 site
- Distobatus1 site
- Distobatus nutiae1 site
- Gymnura laterialata1 site
- Hybodus aschersoni1 site
- Isidobatus tricarinatus1 site
- Lissodus bartheli1 site
- Marckgrafia libyca1 site
- Odontaspididae1 site
- Onchopristis numidus1 site
- Orectoloboides multistriatus1 site
- Paracypria1 site
- Peyeria libyca1 site
- Ptychotrygon henkeli1 site
- Renpetia labiicarinata1 site
- Sechmetia aegyptiaca1 site
- Squalicorax baharijensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Mafdetia tibniensis, 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- Découverte d'une nouvelle faune d'âge cénomanien dans la région de Forthassa (Atlas saharien occidental, Algérie): Implications biostratigraphiques et paléoenvironnementales5
- Die Elasmobranchier-Fauna des Gebel Dist Member der Bahariya Formation (Obercenoman) der Oase Bahariya, Ägypten1
Each of the 6 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
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No picture of Mafdetia tibniensis 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 Mafdetia tibniensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mafdetia tibniensis 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 itMafdetia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Werner 1989