Pristiophorus lanceolatus

Pristiophorus lanceolatus

Hansen, Ole · CC BY 4.0 · 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
PristiophorusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Pristiophoriformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Pristiophoriformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Pristiophoriformes

Time the record covers

At least 37 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 3.7 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Paleocene — about 0 of 34 occurrencesEocene — about 6 of 34 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 11 of 34 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 13 of 34 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 4 of 34 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 34 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 1 occurrence40–39 Mya — about 1 occurrence39–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences35–33 Mya — about 1 occurrence33–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–29 Mya — about 1 occurrence29–27 Mya — about 1 occurrence27–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–24 Mya — about 2 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 1 occurrence22–20 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–16 Mya — about 2 occurrences16–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–13 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.9–7.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences7.1–5.2 Mya — about 4 occurrences5.2–3.4 Mya — about 3 occurrences3.4–1.5 Mya — about 1 occurrence41.03 Mya3.7 Mya57 Mya2 Mya

34 occurrences of Pristiophorus lanceolatus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

34 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

18 formations

Senhata — 35.16°N, 139.86°EKokoamu Greensand — 44.87°S, 170.71°EKokoamu Greensand — 43.39°S, 171.27°ELoxton — 34.15°S, 139.91°EBatesford Limestone — 38.09°S, 144.28°EBlack Rock Sandstone — 37.99°S, 145.04°ETangahoe — 39.58°S, 174.28°ERed Bluff Tuff — 43.67°S, 176.53°EMilburn Limestone — 46.07°S, 170.00°EBurnside — 44.49°S, 170.68°ESquires Greensand — 44.51°S, 170.92°ETapui — 44.95°S, 170.57°ECaversham Sandstone — 45.90°S, 170.45°EBurside Mudstone — 45.90°S, 170.45°EConcord Greensand — 45.90°S, 170.45°ERifle Butts — 45.03°S, 171.03°EKaawa — 37.51°S, 174.75°ETe One Limestone — 43.85°S, 176.53°WLillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.81°E

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The named rock units Pristiophorus lanceolatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pristiophorus lanceolatus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Pristiophorus lanceolatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

263 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Pristiophorus lanceolatus, 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 34 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 content1

Picture of Pristiophorus lanceolatus

Source
GBIF
Credit
Hansen, Ole
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Pristiophorus lanceolatus 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 itPristiophorus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davis 1888)