Paralopias alabamensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ParalopiasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At least 3.3 million years on record.
The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 33.9 Mya.
22 occurrences of Paralopias alabamensis 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
22 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
12 formations
- Gehannam Formation7
- Samlat Formation2
- Gar Gehannam Formation1
- Qasr el-Sagha Formation1
- Yazoo Formation · Jackson Group1
- Gosport Formation1
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The named rock units Paralopias alabamensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Paralopias alabamensis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Paralopias alabamensis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
211 taxa- Myliobatis10 sites
- Brachycarcharias twiggsensis8 sites
- Hemipristis curvatus8 sites
- Macrorhizodus praecursor8 sites
- Propristis schweinfurthi7 sites
- Rhizoprionodon7 sites
- Carcharhinus6 sites
- Misrichthys stromeri6 sites
- Otodus (Carcharocles) sokolowi6 sites
- Striatolamia macrota6 sites
- Abdounia5 sites
- Abdounia minutissima5 sites
- Carcharhinus frequens5 sites
- Dasyatis5 sites
- Galeocerdo5 sites
- Isurus praecursor5 sites
- Physogaleus tertius5 sites
- Aetobatus4 sites
- Burnhamia4 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens4 sites
- Galeorhinus4 sites
- Isurolamna bajarunasi4 sites
- Otodus auriculatus4 sites
- Physogaleus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Paralopias alabamensis, 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
11 references- Shark and ray faunas in the Middle and Late Eocene of the Fayum Area, Egypt7
- Sharks and rays from the Mokattamian Stage (middle and late Eocene) of Egypt, including some species from the middle Eocene Midra Shale of Qatar2
- Records of elasmobranchian teeth in the Bartonian of the northern Caucasus (Russia) and Crimea (Ukraine)2
- A Middle–Late Eocene vertebrate fauna (marine fish and mammals) from southwestern Morocco; preliminary report: age and palaeobiogeographical implications2
- Structure and ichthyofauna of the upper part of Eocene sediments in Belogorsk area (Crimea)2
- The Eocene selachian fauna from the Fayum Depression in Egypt2
- Late Eocene fishes from the Tupelo Bay Formation of South Carolina, USA1
- Paralopias follioti n. gen. n. sp., un nouvel Alopiidae Bonaparte, 1838 (Elasmobranchii, Lamniformes) provenant du Serravallien (Miocène Moyen) de Salles (Gironde, France)1
- Priabonian sharks and rays (Late Eocene: Neoselachii) from Minqar Tabaghbagh in the Western Qattara Depression, Egypt1
- Thurmond and Jones, 19811
- The Eocene fishes of Alabama1
Each of the 22 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.
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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 Paralopias alabamensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Paralopias alabamensis 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 itParalopias through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (White 1956)