Otodus (Carcharocles)

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
OtodusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 124 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 124 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 68 of 124 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 35 of 124 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 19 of 124 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 1 of 124 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 124 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences61–58 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences54–52 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences52–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 2 occurrences47–45 Mya — about 5 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 5 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 7 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 11 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 18 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 18 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 7 occurrences29–27 Mya — about 7 occurrences27–25 Mya — about 9 occurrences25–22 Mya — about 7 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 5 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–16 Mya — about 4 occurrences16–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences11–9.0 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences9.0–6.7 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences6.7–4.5 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences4.5–2.2 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.2–0 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya3.6 Mya67 Mya0 Mya

124 occurrences of Otodus (Carcharocles) on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

124 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

66 formations

Gehannam — 29.31°N, 30.18°EGehannam — 29.36°N, 30.16°EGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EPirabas — 0.63°S, 47.54°WPirabas — 1.20°S, 47.19°WPirabas — 0.59°S, 47.32°WMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.06°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.02°EBirket Qarun — 29.50°N, 30.56°EYamaga — 34.00°N, 130.81°EYamaga — 33.85°N, 130.71°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.60°N, 30.67°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.30°N, 29.99°EChandler Bridge — 33.03°N, 80.27°WChandler Bridge — 32.99°N, 80.15°WChandler Bridge — 32.97°N, 80.15°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WLa Meseta — 64.23°S, 56.67°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.39°N, 88.69°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WElGharaq — 28.82°N, 28.14°EElGharaq — 28.46°N, 28.93°EElGharaq — 29.45°N, 30.36°EJan Juc — 38.33°S, 144.30°EJan Juc — 38.20°S, 144.27°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 30.85°N, 35.85°EJacksonian — 32.42°N, 83.43°WJacksonian — 32.74°N, 83.50°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 88.46°WYazoo — 32.83°N, 90.38°WFürstenau — 52.59°N, 7.22°EAshley — 32.83°N, 79.99°WAshley — 32.99°N, 80.15°WBhuban — 23.75°N, 92.68°EWadi Hof — 30.05°N, 31.52°EWadi Hof — 30.10°N, 32.14°EYsidro — 27.70°N, 114.90°WEttrick — 35.26°S, 139.46°ECastle Hayne — 35.01°N, 77.57°WClifton — 38.48°S, 143.58°EGambier Limestone — 37.82°S, 140.64°ECalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°W

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The named rock units Otodus (Carcharocles) has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 42 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Otodus (Carcharocles) and its relatives

Eocene

Where Otodus (Carcharocles) and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

1,139 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 106 sites for Otodus (Carcharocles), 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

62 references

Each of the 124 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. 50 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

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
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No picture of Otodus (Carcharocles) 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 Otodus (Carcharocles), or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itOtodus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Jordan 1923)