Protoscyliorhinus

No picture of Protoscyliorhinus 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 Protoscyliorhinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
ScyliorhinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 31 million years on record.

The record covers at least 121.4 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 125.77 Mya to 85.7 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 14 of 21 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 7 of 21 occurrencesLate Cretaceous127–125 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences125–124 Mya — about 2 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 2 occurrences122–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–120 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences120–118 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences114–113 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences111–110 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences110–109 Mya — about 1 occurrence109–107 Mya — about 1 occurrence107–106 Mya — about 1 occurrence106–104 Mya — about 1 occurrence104–103 Mya — about 1 occurrence103–102 Mya — about 1 occurrence102–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences99–97 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences97–96 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences86–85 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences121.4 Mya89.8 Mya126.6 Mya84.9 Mya

21 occurrences of Protoscyliorhinus 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

21 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

4 formations

Hunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WHibernian Greensand — 54.95°N, 5.91°WLabguva — 54.88°N, 23.92°EAtherfield Clay — 51.23°N, 0.25°W

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The named rock units Protoscyliorhinus 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.

Protoscyliorhinus and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Protoscyliorhinus and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

131 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 21 sites for Protoscyliorhinus, 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

Each of the 21 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 content0

No picture of Protoscyliorhinus 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 Protoscyliorhinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Protoscyliorhinus 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 itScyliorhinidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

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