Pachyscyllium dachiardi

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 10 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 3.6 Mya.

Miocene — about 17 of 23 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 6 of 23 occurrencesPliocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–19 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–17 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences16–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–14 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 2 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 1 occurrence11–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.6–9.1 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.1–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–7.9 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.9–7.3 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.3–6.7 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.7–6.1 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences6.1–5.5 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences5.5–4.9 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.9–4.3 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.3–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–3.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15.98 Mya5.333 Mya20.9 Mya3.1 Mya

23 occurrences of Pachyscyllium dachiardi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

23 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

8 formations

Esbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°WEsbarrondadoiro — 38.11°N, 8.36°WEsbarrondadoiro — 39.30°N, 8.12°WArenas de Huelva — 37.35°N, 6.61°WArenas de Huelva — 37.33°N, 6.68°WArenas de Huelva — 37.22°N, 7.10°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EBerchem — 51.20°N, 4.44°ESables des Landes — 43.94°N, 0.75°WCacela — 37.08°N, 8.23°WRojales Sandstone — 38.08°N, 0.68°WGliwice — 50.31°N, 18.61°E

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The named rock units Pachyscyllium dachiardi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pachyscyllium dachiardi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pachyscyllium dachiardi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

277 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Pachyscyllium dachiardi, 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

13 references

Each of the 23 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. 1 further reference is 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

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No picture of Pachyscyllium dachiardi was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Pachyscyllium dachiardi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Pachyscyllium dachiardi 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 itPachyscyllium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Lawley 1876)