Myliobatis gigas
No picture of Myliobatis gigas 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 Myliobatis gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- MyliobatisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 2.2 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 13.82 Mya and 11.63 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Myliobatis gigas on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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- Miocene100%
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
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group2
- Coosawatchie Formation · Hawthorne Group1
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Myliobatis gigas has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Myliobatis gigas and its relatives
MioceneWhere Myliobatis gigas and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
138 taxa- Galeocerdo aduncus3 sites
- Hemipristis serra3 sites
- Odontoceti3 sites
- Otodus megalodon3 sites
- Aetobatis arcuatus2 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus2 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Chelone2 sites
- Eburneopecten cerinus2 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens2 sites
- Myliobatis pachyodon2 sites
- Notorynchus primigenius2 sites
- Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens2 sites
- Otodus obliquus2 sites
- Pantrionychidae2 sites
- Physogaleus contortus2 sites
- Prionodon egertoni2 sites
- Sphyraenodus speciosus2 sites
- Sphyrna laevissima2 sites
- Sphyrna magna2 sites
- Sphyrna prisca2 sites
- Thecachampsa sericodon2 sites
- Tritonium centrosum2 sites
- Trygon dux2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Myliobatis gigas, 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
3 references- Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis1
- Systematic Paleontology: Pisces1
- An addition to the vertebrate fauna of the Miocene period, with a synopsis of the extinct Cetacea of the United States1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content0
No picture of Myliobatis gigas 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 Myliobatis gigas, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Myliobatis gigas 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 itMyliobatis through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cope 1868