Mitsukurinidae

Mitsukurinidae

Dianne Bray / Museum Victoria · CC BY 3.0 au · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
goblin sharkPBDB
Sits inside
LamniformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 114 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 0 of 740 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 25 of 740 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 378 of 740 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 63 of 740 occurrencesEocene — about 239 of 740 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 12 of 740 occurrencesMiocene — about 23 of 740 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 740 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 740 occurrences146–141 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences141–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences131–127 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences127–122 Mya — about 1 occurrence122–117 Mya — about 4 occurrences117–112 Mya — about 4 occurrences112–107 Mya — about 8 occurrences107–102 Mya — about 6 occurrences102–97 Mya — about 29 occurrences97–92 Mya — about 45 occurrences92–88 Mya — about 43 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 79 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 63 occurrences78–73 Mya — about 63 occurrences73–68 Mya — about 42 occurrences68–63 Mya — about 31 occurrences63–58 Mya — about 24 occurrences58–54 Mya — about 45 occurrences54–49 Mya — about 37 occurrences49–44 Mya — about 61 occurrences44–39 Mya — about 73 occurrences39–34 Mya — about 47 occurrences34–29 Mya — about 4 occurrences29–24 Mya — about 6 occurrences24–19 Mya — about 7 occurrences19–15 Mya — about 8 occurrences15–9.7 Mya — about 8 occurrences9.7–4.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.9–0 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences121.4 Mya7.246 Mya146 Mya0 Mya

740 occurrences of Mitsukurinidae on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

740 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

223 formations

La Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WMenuha — 30.95°N, 35.00°EMenuha — 30.50°N, 34.65°EMenuha — 30.56°N, 34.65°EMenuha — 30.58°N, 34.90°EMesaverde — 44.06°N, 107.72°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.75°WMesaverde — 44.17°N, 107.81°WMancos Shale — 39.00°N, 110.35°WMancos Shale — 35.21°N, 107.13°WMancos Shale — 36.39°N, 109.85°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.55°N, 110.48°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 36.00°N, 111.00°WOsinovaya — 48.40°N, 41.76°EOsinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.93°EOsinovaya — 48.46°N, 41.83°EOsinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.72°EAguja — 29.32°N, 103.52°WAguja — 29.17°N, 103.62°WAguja — 29.10°N, 103.17°WAguja — 29.30°N, 103.57°WAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WNavesink — 40.31°N, 74.22°WNavesink — 40.33°N, 74.26°WNavesink — 40.40°N, 74.13°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.83°N, 1.25°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°ECarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.04°N, 99.07°WCarlile Shale — 43.25°N, 103.92°WCarlile Shale — 44.09°N, 104.68°WMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WBlack Creek — 34.68°N, 78.23°WBlack Creek — 34.58°N, 78.27°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.46°N, 77.68°WBlack Creek — 35.67°N, 77.47°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.39°N, 88.69°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 88.50°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WEutaw — 32.38°N, 84.93°WEutaw — 32.35°N, 86.35°WEutaw — 33.52°N, 88.40°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WMooreville Chalk — 31.39°N, 87.79°WMooreville Chalk — 32.84°N, 87.89°WMooreville Chalk — 32.95°N, 88.08°WMooreville Chalk — 32.76°N, 88.02°WMooreville Chalk — 32.35°N, 86.34°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.88°N, 0.81°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.67°N, 1.10°WNierental — 47.66°N, 14.86°ECarlile — 36.12°N, 104.74°WCarlile — 43.64°N, 104.12°WCarlile — 43.91°N, 104.35°WCarlile — 43.96°N, 104.44°WCarlile — 44.14°N, 104.71°WCarlile — 43.40°N, 103.36°WTuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°ELisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WLisbon — 31.83°N, 88.31°WLisbon — 31.75°N, 88.10°WMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMarshalltown — 40.00°N, 74.82°W

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The named rock units Mitsukurinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 199 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 192 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Mitsukurinidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Mitsukurinidae and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

3,094 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 617 sites for Mitsukurinidae, and this reads 240 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

285 references

Each of the 740 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. 273 further references are not listed. 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

Media content1

Picture of Mitsukurinidae

Credit
Dianne Bray / Museum Victoria
Licence
CC BY 3.0 au
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Mitsukurinidae 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 itLamniformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan 1898