Palaeoscyllium

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

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 39 million years on record.

The record covers at least 165.3 Mya to 125.77 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 168.2 Mya to 121.4 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 9 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 6 of 9 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 9 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous169–168 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences168–166 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences166–164 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences159–158 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences158–156 Mya — about 1 occurrence156–155 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences155–153 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences153–151 Mya — about 1 occurrence151–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences148–146 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences146–145 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences138–137 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences137–135 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences135–133 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences133–132 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences127–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences165.3 Mya125.77 Mya169.1 Mya120.5 Mya

9 occurrences of Palaeoscyllium on record, most of them in the Late Jurassic. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

9 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

6 formations

Sot de Chera — 41.12°N, 0.83°WForest Marble — 51.85°N, 0.10°WLower Kimmeridge marls — 51.90°N, 10.51°EWessex — 50.66°N, 1.13°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.34°WLiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°E

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The named rock units Palaeoscyllium 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.

Palaeoscyllium and its relatives

Late Jurassic

Where Palaeoscyllium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Jurassic.

Found in the same rock

49 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Palaeoscyllium, 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

8 references

Each of the 9 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. 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 Palaeoscyllium 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 Palaeoscyllium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Palaeoscyllium 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 itScyliorhinidae through timeFormations of the Late JurassicThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Wagner 1857