Pseudobatos steurbauti

Ezra Patricelli · CC BY-NC 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
- PseudobatosPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
6 occurrences of Pseudobatos steurbauti on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
6 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
5 formations
- Dongen Formation2
- Earnley Formation · Bracklesham Group1
- Rishtan Formation1
- Sables d'Auvers Formation1
- Maldegem Formation1
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The named rock units Pseudobatos steurbauti has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudobatos steurbauti and its relatives
EoceneWhere Pseudobatos steurbauti and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
135 taxa- Myliobatis6 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti5 sites
- Striatolamia macrota5 sites
- Abdounia lapierrei4 sites
- Dasyatis3 sites
- Isistius trituratus3 sites
- Jaekelotodus trigonalis3 sites
- Physogaleus secundus3 sites
- Rhizoprionodon ganntourensis3 sites
- Rhynchobatus vincenti3 sites
- Squatina prima3 sites
- Abdounia beaugei2 sites
- Abdounia minutissima2 sites
- Abdounia recticona2 sites
- Aetobatus irregularis2 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei2 sites
- Carcharias hopei2 sites
- Coupatezia woutersi2 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens2 sites
- Galeorhinus2 sites
- Glaucopristis bruxelliensis2 sites
- Heterodontus vincenti2 sites
- Lamniformes2 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Pseudobatos steurbauti, 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- Elasmobranch teeth (Vertebrata, Pisces) from the Dongen Formation (Eocene) in The Netherlands2
- Taxonomic revision and new elasmobranch records from the Wemmel Sand and Asse Clay members, base of the Maldegem Formation (middle Lutetian, southern North Sea Basin)1
- A Middle Eocene selachian fauna from the White Mountain Formation of the Kizylum Desert, Uzbekistan, C.I.S1
- Fossils from the Bracklesham Group exposed in the M27 Motorway excavations, Southampton, Hampshire1
- Les sélaciens de l'Auversien de Ronquerolles (Eocène supérieur du Bassin de Paris)1
Each of the 6 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 Pseudobatos steurbauti
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Ezra Patricelli
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itPseudobatos through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Cappetta and Nolf 1981)