Ptychotrygon cuspidata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychotrygonPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Ptychotrygon cuspidata 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
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The named rock units Ptychotrygon cuspidata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Ptychotrygon cuspidata and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ptychotrygon cuspidata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis3 sites
- Ischyrhiza mira3 sites
- Rhombodus levis3 sites
- Scapanorhynchus texanus3 sites
- Squalicorax kaupi3 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis2 sites
- Carcharias hardingi2 sites
- Carcharias holmdelensis2 sites
- Carcharias samhammeri2 sites
- Cretolamna lata2 sites
- Hybodus2 sites
- Lonchidion babulskii2 sites
- Meristodonoides novojerseyensis2 sites
- Odontaspis aculeatus2 sites
- Paranomotodon angustidens2 sites
- Plicatoscyllium globidens2 sites
- Protolamna borodini2 sites
- Ptychotrygon vermiculata2 sites
- Rhinobatos casieri2 sites
- Squalicorax pristodontus2 sites
- Squatina (Cretascyllium) hassei2 sites
- Texatrygon avonicola2 sites
- Albula1 site
- Ankystrorhynchus major1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Ptychotrygon cuspidata, 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
2 references- Contribution a l'étude des sélaciens du Groupe Monmouth (Campanien-Maestrichtian) du New Jersey2
- An Upper Cretaceous (middle Campanian) marine chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the Rattlesnake Mountain sandstone member of the Aguja Formation in West Texas1
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. 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 Ptychotrygon cuspidata 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 Ptychotrygon cuspidata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ptychotrygon cuspidata was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itPtychotrygon through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta and Case 1975