Negaprion brevirostris

The lemon shark is a species of requiem shark from the family Carcharhinidae, known for its yellowish skin, which inspires its common name.

Negaprion brevirostris

Albert Kok ( talk ) · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/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
lemon sharkPBDB
Sits inside
NegaprionPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 20.45 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 0 Mya.

Oligocene — about 0 of 58 occurrencesMiocene — about 41 of 58 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 10 of 58 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 5 of 58 occurrencesPleistocene24–23 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 1 occurrence13–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 4 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 4 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 4 occurrences9.4–8.6 Mya — about 3 occurrences8.6–7.8 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.8–7.1 Mya — about 3 occurrences7.1–6.3 Mya — about 3 occurrences6.3–5.5 Mya — about 3 occurrences5.5–4.7 Mya — about 3 occurrences4.7–3.9 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.9–3.1 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.1–2.4 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.4–1.6 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences1.6–785 ka Mya — about 2 occurrences785 ka–0 Mya — about 5 occurrences20.45 Mya11.7 ka23.5 Mya0 Mya

58 occurrences of Negaprion brevirostris on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

58 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

24 formations

Gatun — 9.35°N, 79.84°WGatun — 9.30°N, 79.92°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.81°WUrumaco — 11.19°N, 70.26°WUrumaco — 11.24°N, 70.25°WStatenville — 30.40°N, 83.00°WStatenville — 30.23°N, 82.63°WTamiami — 26.72°N, 81.67°WTamiami — 27.34°N, 82.51°WAlachua — 29.55°N, 82.52°WAlachua — 29.65°N, 82.60°WBermont — 27.70°N, 82.50°WLuanda — 8.76°S, 13.30°EArcadia — 27.80°N, 81.98°WArcadia — 27.29°N, 82.53°WChucunaque — 9.15°N, 78.76°WChilcatay — 14.62°S, 75.63°WYorktown — 33.79°N, 77.65°WYorktown — 33.58°N, 77.42°WLagunitas — 21.62°N, 79.53°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WPeace River — 27.50°N, 82.50°WMiramar — 5.19°S, 80.63°WChagres Sandstone — 9.16°N, 80.29°WAlajuela — 9.21°N, 79.59°WAngostura — 0.74°N, 79.94°WBhuban — 23.75°N, 92.68°EPisco — 14.35°S, 75.89°WSocorro — 11.19°N, 70.15°WCodore — 11.27°N, 70.28°WTunga — 14.27°S, 76.05°W

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The named rock units Negaprion brevirostris has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 11 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Negaprion brevirostris and its relatives

Miocene

Where Negaprion brevirostris and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

1,146 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 53 sites for Negaprion brevirostris, 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

30 references

Each of the 58 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. 18 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 content2

Picture of Negaprion brevirostris

Credit
Albert Kok ( talk )
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Poey 1868)