Pachygaleus

No picture of Pachygaleus 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 Pachygaleus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GaleorhininiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 7.9 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Paleocene — about 11 of 38 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 27 of 38 occurrencesEocene60–59 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 2 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–55 Mya — about 1 occurrence55–54 Mya — about 1 occurrence54–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–53 Mya — about 1 occurrence53–52 Mya — about 1 occurrence52–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–51 Mya — about 1 occurrence51–50 Mya — about 1 occurrence50–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–49 Mya — about 1 occurrence49–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–48 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–42 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences56 Mya48.07 Mya59.7 Mya40.5 Mya

38 occurrences of Pachygaleus 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

38 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

19 formations

London Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.38°N, 0.24°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 50.88°N, 1.30°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°ETallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WTuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WArgiles d'Lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°ELisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WKortrijk Clay — 50.80°N, 3.22°EWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WTuscahoma — 32.35°N, 88.68°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WFürstenau — 52.59°N, 7.22°EFishburne — 33.28°N, 79.64°WVincentown — 39.86°N, 74.82°WKalinino — 52.51°N, 46.58°EMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WBrussel Sand — 50.79°N, 4.37°EAalter — 50.53°N, 4.26°ESuzak — 41.65°N, 64.66°E

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The named rock units Pachygaleus 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.

Pachygaleus and its relatives

Eocene

Where Pachygaleus and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

708 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 38 sites for Pachygaleus, 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

22 references

Each of the 38 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. 10 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 content0

No picture of Pachygaleus 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 Pachygaleus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pachygaleus 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 itGaleorhinini through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta 1992