Palaeogaleus

Palaeogaleus

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On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 27 million years on record.

The record covers at least 83.6 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 85.7 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 38 of 100 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 58 of 100 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 100 occurrencesEocene86–85 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences85–84 Mya — about 2 occurrences84–83 Mya — about 1 occurrence83–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–80 Mya — about 1 occurrence80–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–76 Mya — about 1 occurrence76–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–72 Mya — about 1 occurrence72–71 Mya — about 5 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 5 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 8 occurrences66–64 Mya — about 13 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 13 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 13 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 3 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 5 occurrences58–56 Mya — about 5 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 2 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences49–47 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences83.6 Mya56 Mya86.5 Mya47.3 Mya

100 occurrences of Palaeogaleus on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

100 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

32 formations

Fox Hills — 46.05°N, 103.88°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 44.52°N, 102.39°WCouche II — 32.65°N, 6.68°WCouche II — 32.72°N, 6.78°WCouche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WHornerstown — 40.10°N, 73.00°WHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.88°N, 0.81°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°ENierental — 47.66°N, 14.86°ERødvig — 55.32°N, 12.44°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°EArgiles d'Lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EOiching — 47.94°N, 13.01°ECiply Calcarenite — 50.42°N, 3.94°EByala — 42.88°N, 27.90°EKemp Clay — 33.21°N, 95.92°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WCouche 2 — 34.32°N, 5.85°WMarnes d'Auzas — 43.21°N, 0.92°EClayton Limestone — 34.39°N, 92.85°WCulver Chalk — 50.85°N, 1.15°WValdenoceda — 42.90°N, 3.30°WTorme — 42.67°N, 2.63°WPeedee — 34.38°N, 77.83°WStevns Klint — 55.35°N, 12.44°EObourg — 50.47°N, 4.03°ETrivières Chalk — 50.47°N, 4.03°E

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The named rock units Palaeogaleus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 8 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 38 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeogaleus and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Palaeogaleus and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

800 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 88 sites for Palaeogaleus, 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

36 references

Each of the 100 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. 24 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

Picture of Palaeogaleus

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Palaeogaleus 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. Gurr 1963