Pseudomegachasma comanchensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PseudomegachasmaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Pseudomegachasma comanchensis 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
3 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
- Greenhorn Limestone Formation · Colorado Group2
- Lake Waco Formation · Eagle Ford Group1
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The named rock units Pseudomegachasma comanchensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Pseudomegachasma comanchensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Pseudomegachasma comanchensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
48 taxa- Albulidae2 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis2 sites
- Cenocarcharias tenuiplicatus2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Cretomanta canadensis2 sites
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli2 sites
- Enchodus gladiolus2 sites
- Enchodus shumardi2 sites
- Microcarcharias saskatchewanensis2 sites
- Pachyrhizodus minimus2 sites
- Plethodidae2 sites
- Protosphyraena2 sites
- Ptychodus occidentalis2 sites
- Rhinobatos incertus2 sites
- Squalicorax curvatus2 sites
- Brachauchenius1 site
- Calycoceras1 site
- Carcharhiniformes1 site
- Caturidae1 site
- Coniasaurus crassidens1 site
- Cretodus semiplicatus1 site
- Cretoxyrhina agassizensis1 site
- Dolichosauridae1 site
- Elopopsis1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Pseudomegachasma comanchensis, 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
3 references- A new clade of putative plankton-feeding sharks from the Upper Cretaceous of Russia and the United States1
- A new Late Cretaceous marine vertebrate assemblage from the Lincoln Limestone Member of the Greenhorn Limestone in southeastern Colorado1
- Mesozoic origin for megamouth shark (Lamniformes: Megachasmidae)1
Each of the 3 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Pseudomegachasma comanchensis 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 Pseudomegachasma comanchensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Pseudomegachasma comanchensis 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 itPseudomegachasma through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Shimada 2007)