Microetmopterus wardi
No picture of Microetmopterus wardi 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 Microetmopterus wardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicroetmopterusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.2 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 72.2 Mya and 66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Microetmopterus wardi 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
1 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.
Microetmopterus wardi and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Microetmopterus wardi and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
19 taxa- Annea1 site
- Centroscymnus schmidi1 site
- Crassescyliorhinus germanicus1 site
- Eoetmopterus supracretaceus1 site
- Hemiscylliidae1 site
- Hemiscyllium1 site
- Heterodontus1 site
- Lamniformes1 site
- Orectolobiformes1 site
- Paraorthacodus1 site
- Pararhincodon1 site
- Parascyllium1 site
- Paratriakis1 site
- Proetmopterus hemmooriensis1 site
- Raja1 site
- Rhinobatoidei1 site
- Scyliorhinidae1 site
- Squalus gabrielsoni1 site
- Squatina1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Microetmopterus wardi, 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 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 Microetmopterus wardi 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 Microetmopterus wardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microetmopterus wardi 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 itMicroetmopterus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Siverson 1993