Paratrygon

Quinn Dombrowski from Chicago, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
- DasyatidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 23.04 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Paratrygon on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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
2 occurrences- Oligocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Paratrygon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Paratrygon and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Paratrygon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
58 taxa- Caviomorpha2 sites
- Characiformes2 sites
- Charophyceae2 sites
- Eoincamys parvus2 sites
- Eoincamys valverdei2 sites
- Eusuchia2 sites
- Hydrolycus2 sites
- Lepidosirenidae2 sites
- Leporinus2 sites
- Magnoliopsida2 sites
- Parastegosimpsonia peruana2 sites
- Pelomedusoidea indet.2 sites
- Plantae2 sites
- Tarapotomys2 sites
- Tarapotomys subandinus2 sites
- Trichodactylidae2 sites
- Vertebrata2 sites
- Adianthinae1 site
- Ampullariidae1 site
- Anthropoidea1 site
- Anura1 site
- Archaeoyracidae indet.1 site
- Argyrolagoidea1 site
- Astrapotheriidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Paratrygon, 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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Paratrygon
- Source
- Wikidata/Commons
- Credit
- Quinn Dombrowski from Chicago, USA
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 2.0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Paratrygon 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 itDasyatidae through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Dumeríl 1865