Protolamna roanokeensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtolamnaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 5.8 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 100.5 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Protolamna roanokeensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
1 occurrences- Early Cretaceous100%
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 Protolamna roanokeensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Protolamna roanokeensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Protolamna roanokeensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
5 taxa- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Cretodus semiplicatus1 site
- Leptostyrax macrorhiza1 site
- Paraisurus macrorhizus1 site
- Squalicorax pawpawensis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Protolamna roanokeensis, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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 1 occurrence 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Protolamna roanokeensis was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Protolamna roanokeensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protolamna roanokeensis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itProtolamna through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta and Case 1999