Pteroscyllium

Pteroscyllium

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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 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 61.66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 13 of 45 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 32 of 45 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 45 occurrencesPaleocene123–121 Mya — about 2 occurrences121–118 Mya — about 2 occurrences118–116 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences116–114 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences108–106 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 2 occurrences104–102 Mya — about 2 occurrences102–100 Mya — about 2 occurrences100–98 Mya — about 2 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 2 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 2 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 1 occurrence92–89 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 1 occurrence85–83 Mya — about 6 occurrences83–81 Mya — about 1 occurrence81–79 Mya — about 1 occurrence79–77 Mya — about 1 occurrence77–75 Mya — about 1 occurrence75–73 Mya — about 1 occurrence73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 3 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 3 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–63 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences119.57 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya60 Mya

45 occurrences of Pteroscyllium 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

45 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

9 formations

Hunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.45°N, 1.36°WNewhaven Chalk — 51.53°N, 0.70°WSpeeton Clay — 54.15°N, 0.17°WMishash — 30.87°N, 34.94°EMishash — 30.83°N, 34.92°EHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°WHythe — 51.24°N, 0.10°WCulver Chalk — 50.85°N, 1.15°WGreenhorn Limestone — 42.64°N, 96.53°WCouche III — 32.67°N, 6.67°WBurgsteinfurt — 52.19°N, 7.17°E

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The named rock units Pteroscyllium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 20 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pteroscyllium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Pteroscyllium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Pteroscyllium, 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

17 references

Each of the 45 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. 5 further references are not listed. 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 Pteroscyllium

Source
GBIF
Credit
via GBIF
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows 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 itScyliorhinidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta 1980