Onchopristis numidus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnchopristisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 34 million years on record.
The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 143.1 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
22 occurrences of Onchopristis numidus 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
22 occurrencesThese 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
10 formations
- Bahariya Formation8
- Continental Intercalaire Formation3
- Ifezouane Formation · Kem Kem Group2
- Gara Samani Formation1
- Echkar Formation · Tegama Group1
- Ménaka Formation1
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The named rock units Onchopristis numidus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Onchopristis numidus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Onchopristis numidus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
115 taxa- Theropoda8 sites
- Lepidotes7 sites
- Crocodylia6 sites
- Carcharodontosaurus saharicus5 sites
- Distobatus nutiae4 sites
- Neoceratodus africanus4 sites
- Spinosaurus aegyptiacus4 sites
- Squalicorax baharijensis4 sites
- Testudines4 sites
- Aegyptobatus kuehnei3 sites
- Asteracanthus aegyptiacus3 sites
- Coelurosauria3 sites
- Hybodus aschersoni3 sites
- Marckgrafia libyca3 sites
- Platyspondylus foureaui3 sites
- Pycnodus3 sites
- Rebbachisaurinae3 sites
- Sauropoda3 sites
- Stromerichthys aethiopicus3 sites
- Anhangueridae2 sites
- Calamopleurus africanus2 sites
- Ceratodus2 sites
- Ceratodus pectinatus2 sites
- Enchodontidae2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Onchopristis numidus, 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
11 references- Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman) 4. Die Säge des Pristiden Onchopristis numidus Haug sp. und über die Sägen der Sägehaie8
- Étude derestes de poissons du Crétacé saharien [Study of fish remains from the Saharan Cretaceous]3
- Stratigraphy and Paleobiology of the Upper Cretaceous - Lower Paleogene Sediments from the Trans-Saharan Seaway in Mali2
- Oxygen and carbon isotope compositions of middle Cretaceous vertebrates from North Africa and Brazil: Ecological and environmental significance2
- The Lower Cretaceous “Continental Intercalaire” around Tidikelt (Central Sahara, Algeria): sedimentology, palaeontology and ichnology1
- Overabundance of piscivorous dinosaurs (Theropoda: Spinosauridae) in the mid-Cretaceous of North Africa: the Algerian dilemma1
- Die Elasmobranchier-Fauna des Gebel Dist Member der Bahariya Formation (Obercenoman) der Oase Bahariya, Ägypten1
- Sur la découverte d’un nouveau gisement de Vertébrés dans le Continental Intercalaire saharien: la Gara Samani (Algérie) [On the discovery of a new vertebrate locality in the Saharan Continental Intercalaire: Gara Samani]1
- Découverte des Dinosauriens associés à des Crocodiliens et des Poissons dans le Crétacé inférieur de l'Atlas saharien (Algérie) [Discovery of dinosaurs associated with crocodilians and fish in the Lower Cretaceous of the Saharan Atlas (Algeria)]1
- Gisements de Dinosauriens dans le "Continental intercalaire" d'In Abangarit (Sahara méridional) [Dinosaur localities in the "Continental Intercalaire" of In Abangarit (southern Sahara)]1
- Découverte de Crétacé à Vertébrés dans le soubassement de la Hammada du Guir (Sud marocain) [Discovery of Cretaceous with vertebrates in the basement of Hammada du Guir (southern Morocco)]1
Each of the 22 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.
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No picture of Onchopristis numidus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Onchopristis numidus itself, so it was not used.
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 Onchopristis numidus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Onchopristis numidus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Haug 1905)