Palaeorhincodon

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhinocodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 159 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 28 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 28 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 28 occurrencesPaleocene — about 4 of 28 occurrencesEocene — about 22 of 28 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 28 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 28 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 28 occurrences178–172 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences172–166 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences62–56 Mya — about 4 occurrences56–50 Mya — about 6 occurrences50–45 Mya — about 8 occurrences45–39 Mya — about 7 occurrences39–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–9.7 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences9.7–3.9 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences170.9 Mya11.63 Mya178 Mya4 Mya

28 occurrences of Palaeorhincodon 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

28 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

15 formations

Couche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WCouche II — 32.65°N, 6.68°WLede — 50.92°N, 3.81°ELede — 50.93°N, 3.90°ELede — 50.84°N, 4.39°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WFishburne — 33.28°N, 79.64°WKuma — 45.10°N, 34.63°ECouche I — 32.72°N, 6.78°ECacela — 37.08°N, 8.23°WMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WBrussels — 50.83°N, 4.43°E

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The named rock units Palaeorhincodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Palaeorhincodon and its relatives

Eocene

Where Palaeorhincodon and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

609 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Palaeorhincodon, 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

14 references

Each of the 28 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. 2 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 Palaeorhincodon 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 Palaeorhincodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeorhincodon 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 itRhinocodontidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herman 1974