Onychoselache traquairi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OnychoselachePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 346.7 Mya and 335.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Onychoselache traquairi on record, most of them in the Carboniferous. 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
2 occurrences- Carboniferous100%
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
- Glencartholm Volcanic Beds Formation · Upper Border Group1
- Gullane Formation · Strathclyde Group1
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The named rock units Onychoselache traquairi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Onychoselache traquairi and its relatives
CarboniferousWhere Onychoselache traquairi and its relatives were recorded in the Carboniferous.
Found in the same rock
47 taxa- Acanthodes nitidus1 site
- Acrolepis ortholepis1 site
- Adelophthalmus perornatus1 site
- Antliodus1 site
- Canobius1 site
- Canobius elegantulus1 site
- Cheirodopsis geikiei1 site
- Chondrenchelys problematica1 site
- Cosmoptychius striatus1 site
- Ctenacanthidae1 site
- Cycloptychius concentricus1 site
- Deltoptychius1 site
- Diplodoselache woodi1 site
- Dumfregia huxleyi1 site
- Elonichthys pulcherrimus1 site
- Elonichthys robisoni1 site
- Elonichthys serratus1 site
- Gigantoscorpio willsi1 site
- Gonatodus punctatus1 site
- Goodrichthys1 site
- Holurus parki1 site
- Megalichthys1 site
- Mesopoma1 site
- Mesopoma crassum1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Onychoselache traquairi, 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 referencesEach of the 2 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
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No picture of Onychoselache traquairi 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 Onychoselache traquairi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Onychoselache traquairi 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 itOnychoselache through timeFormations of the CarboniferousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dick 1978