Megalodus loczyi
No picture of Megalodus loczyi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 loczyi, 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 32 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 237 Mya and 205.7 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Megalodus loczyi 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
2 occurrences- Late Triassic100%
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
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The named rock units Megalodus loczyi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Megalodus loczyi and its relatives
Late TriassicWhere Megalodus loczyi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Triassic.
Found in the same rock
16 taxa- Gemmelarodus2 sites
- Neomegalodon2 sites
- Neomegalodon boeckhi2 sites
- Neomegalodon hoernesi2 sites
- Costatoria1 site
- Costatoria whateleyae1 site
- Dicerocardium1 site
- Megalodus laczkoi1 site
- Myoconcha1 site
- Neomegalodon triqueter1 site
- Nuculana1 site
- Pleuromya loeschmanni1 site
- Rossiodus columbella1 site
- Stephanocosmia dolomitica1 site
- Triadomegalodon1 site
- Trigonodus postrablensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Megalodus loczyi, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Megalodus loczyi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 loczyi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Megalodus loczyi 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 itMegalodus through timeFormations of the Late TriassicThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hoernes 1912