Megalodus compressus

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MegalodusPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Megalodontidae
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB, for Megalodontidae
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Megalodontidae
Vision
blindPBDB, for Megalodontidae

Time the record covers

At most 6.3 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 233.6 Mya and 227.3 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 1 occurrenceLate Triassic234–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–233 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences233–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–232 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences232–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–231 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences231–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–230 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences230–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–229 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences229–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–228 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences228–227 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences234.1 Mya226.8 Mya

1 occurrence of Megalodus compressus on record, most of them in the Late Triassic. 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

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

1 formation

Lunz — 47.32°N, 11.29°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Megalodus compressus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Megalodus compressus and its relatives

Late Triassic

Where Megalodus compressus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Megalodus compressus, 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 reference

Each 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

Media content0

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

No 3D scan of Megalodus compressus 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 itMegalodus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. von Wöhrmann 1889