Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MicroscyliorhinusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Time the record covers
At most 8 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 48.07 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis 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
3 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.
Found in
2 formations
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The named rock units Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Burnhamia daviesi3 sites
- Foumtizia pattersoni3 sites
- Glaucopristis bruxelliensis3 sites
- Isurolamna inflata3 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti3 sites
- Abdounia beaugei2 sites
- Abdounia minutissima2 sites
- Abdounia recticona2 sites
- Aetobatus irregularis2 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei2 sites
- Dasyatis2 sites
- Dasyatis jaekeli2 sites
- Foumtizia2 sites
- Galeorhinus duchaussoisi2 sites
- Galeorhinus ypresiensis2 sites
- Heterodontus2 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis2 sites
- Jaekelotodus robustus2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri2 sites
- Pachygaleus lefevrei2 sites
- Palaeohypotodus rutoti2 sites
- Pararhincodon ypresiensis2 sites
- Parotodus pavlovi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis, 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
2 references- Quantitative analysis of elasmobranch assemblages from two successive Ypresian (early Eocene) facies at Marke, western Belgium2
- Sélaciens nouveaux du London Clay de l'Essex (Yprésien du bassin de Londres)1
Each of the 3 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 Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis 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 Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Microscyliorhinus burnhamensis 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 itMicroscyliorhinus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cappetta 1976)