Protoxynotus misburgensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- ProtoxynotusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes
Time the record covers
At least 17 million years on record.
The record covers at least 89.8 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya.
8 occurrences of Protoxynotus misburgensis 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
8 occurrences- Late 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Protoxynotus misburgensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Protoxynotus misburgensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Protoxynotus misburgensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
27 taxa- Cretascymnus westfalicus3 sites
- Squalus vondermarcki3 sites
- Centrodeania perchensis2 sites
- Centroscymnus praecursor2 sites
- Palaeocentroscymnus bavaricus2 sites
- Scyliorhinus elongatus2 sites
- Chlamydoselachidae1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Echinocorys gravesi1 site
- Eoetmopterus supracretaceus1 site
- Eutrephoceras darupense1 site
- Galerites subrotunda1 site
- Hexanchus gracilis1 site
- Incognitorapax fernsebneri1 site
- Infulaster1 site
- Lepisosteus1 site
- Lonchidiidae1 site
- Palaeogaleus havreensis1 site
- Paranomotodon angustidens1 site
- Parasquatina1 site
- Paratriakis1 site
- Pteroscyllium nolfi1 site
- Scyliorhinus1 site
- Somniosidae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Protoxynotus misburgensis, 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
5 references- A new deep-marine elasmobranch fauna from the Late Cretaceous of Bergen (Bavaria, Germany) dominated by squaliform sharks3
- A neoselachian fauna (Vertebrata, Pisces) from the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) of Höver, near Hannover (NW Germany)2
- First record of the somniosid shark Protoxynotus misburgensis from the Santonian (Late Cretaceous) of the Southern Tethyan Realm1
- Revision of the Cretaceous shark Protoxynotus (Chondrichthyes, Squaliformes) and early evolution of somniosid sharks1
- Möglicher Neufund eines Haizahnes von Protoxynotus misburgiensis Herman 19751
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Protoxynotus misburgensis 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 Protoxynotus misburgensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Protoxynotus misburgensis 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 itProtoxynotus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herman 1975