Mecotrygon asperodentulus
No picture of Mecotrygon asperodentulus 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 Mecotrygon asperodentulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MecotrygonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 3.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 41.03 Mya and 37.71 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Mecotrygon asperodentulus 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
1 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.
Mecotrygon asperodentulus and its relatives
EoceneWhere Mecotrygon asperodentulus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
29 taxa- Amamria tunisiensis1 site
- Amamriabatis heni1 site
- Archaeomanta1 site
- Arechia1 site
- Carcharhinus frequens1 site
- Carcharhinus kasserinensis1 site
- Coupatezia cristata1 site
- Dasyatidae1 site
- Garabatis1 site
- Hemipristis curvatus1 site
- Hemiscyllium1 site
- Himantura souarfortuna1 site
- Leptocharias tunisiensis1 site
- Misrichthys1 site
- Moerigaleus1 site
- Nebrius1 site
- Odontorhytis pappenheimi1 site
- Ouledia lacuna1 site
- Pachygymnura attiai1 site
- Pastinachus kebarensis1 site
- Pristis1 site
- Propristis schweinfurthi1 site
- Protophiomys tunisiensis1 site
- Rhizoprionodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Mecotrygon asperodentulus, 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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
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No picture of Mecotrygon asperodentulus 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 Mecotrygon asperodentulus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Mecotrygon asperodentulus 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itMecotrygon through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Adnet et al. 2020