Rhinoptera prisca
No picture of Rhinoptera prisca 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 Rhinoptera prisca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhinopteraPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 39 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 61.66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Rhinoptera prisca on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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 Cretaceous33%
- Paleocene67%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Rhinoptera prisca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Rhinoptera prisca and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Rhinoptera prisca and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
8 taxa- Striatolamia cederstroemi2 sites
- Apocopodon sericeus1 site
- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Enchodus subaequilateralis1 site
- Ischyodus williamsae1 site
- Scapanorhynchus subulatus1 site
- Serratolamna serrata1 site
- Squalicorax pristodontus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Rhinoptera prisca, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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- Additional records of Paleogene fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) from Alabama, USA2
- Upper Cretaceous fish-remains from Brazil1
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 Rhinoptera prisca 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 Rhinoptera prisca, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhinoptera prisca 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 itRhinoptera through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1907