Rhiniodon typus

No picture of Rhiniodon typus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhiniodon typus itself, so it was not used. 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 Rhiniodon typus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
whale sharkPBDB
Sits inside
RhiniodonPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 20 million years on record.

The record covers at least 23.04 Mya to 2.58 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 27.3 Mya to 774 ka.

Oligocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 3 occurrencesPleistocene28–27 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences10–9.4 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences9.4–8.5 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences8.5–7.6 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences7.6–6.7 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences6.7–5.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences5.8–4.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences3.0–2.1 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences2.1–1.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.2–243 ka Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23.04 Mya2.58 Mya27.8 Mya243 ka

3 occurrences of Rhiniodon typus on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

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

3 formations

Chandler Bridge — 33.03°N, 80.27°WUscari — 9.57°N, 82.57°WWaccamaw — 33.10°N, 80.31°W

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The named rock units Rhiniodon typus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

125 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhiniodon typus, 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

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

Media content0

No picture of Rhiniodon typus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Rhiniodon typus itself, so it was not used.

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 Rhiniodon typus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Rhiniodon typus 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Smith 1828)