Pararhincodon

Pararhincodon

via GBIF · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 62 million years on record.

The record covers at least 100.5 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 106.3 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 4 of 75 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 44 of 75 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 75 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 22 of 75 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 75 occurrences108–105 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 2 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 2 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 1 occurrence90–88 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–83 Mya — about 7 occurrences83–80 Mya — about 4 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 4 occurrences78–75 Mya — about 4 occurrences75–73 Mya — about 4 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 3 occurrences70–68 Mya — about 3 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 3 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences53–50 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 1 occurrence48–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 5 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 3 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 1 occurrence100.5 Mya37.71 Mya108 Mya32 Mya

75 occurrences of Pararhincodon on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

75 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

21 formations

Marnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WNewhaven Chalk — 50.67°N, 1.10°WGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EHunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WRødvig — 55.32°N, 12.44°ECulver Chalk — 50.85°N, 1.15°WTor — 55.32°N, 12.44°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°EDonoho Creek — 34.06°N, 79.53°WBeckum — 51.79°N, 7.99°EMidawara — 29.08°N, 30.12°EKuma — 45.10°N, 34.63°EGrayson Marl — 32.72°N, 97.20°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WHibernian Greensand — 54.95°N, 5.91°WObourg — 50.47°N, 4.03°EMiretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°WLondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°EKortrijk Clay — 50.80°N, 3.22°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°E

Loading coastlines…

The named rock units Pararhincodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pararhincodon and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pararhincodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

531 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 67 sites for Pararhincodon, 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

24 references

Each of the 75 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. 12 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 Pararhincodon

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

No 3D scan of Pararhincodon 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itParascylliidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herman 1977