Rhombodus meridionalis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- RhombodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
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.
15 occurrences of Rhombodus meridionalis 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
15 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.
Rhombodus meridionalis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Rhombodus meridionalis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
101 taxa- Chelonioidea9 sites
- Squalicorax pristodontus9 sites
- Cretalamna maroccana8 sites
- Elasmosauridae8 sites
- Enchodus elegans8 sites
- Hypsobatis8 sites
- Rhinobatos8 sites
- Plioplatecarpinae7 sites
- Stratodus apicalis7 sites
- Youssoubatis7 sites
- Ctenopristis6 sites
- Dalpiazia stromeri6 sites
- Plicatoscyllium6 sites
- Plicatoscyllium gharbii6 sites
- Squalicorax bassanii6 sites
- Stephanodus6 sites
- Carcharias5 sites
- Cretalamna biauriculata5 sites
- Leiodon anceps5 sites
- Myliobatoidea5 sites
- Parapalaeobates atlanticus5 sites
- Plioplatecarpini5 sites
- Squalicorax5 sites
- Squalicorax africanus5 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Rhombodus meridionalis, 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
4 references- The marine vertebrate faunas from the Late Cretaceous phosphates of Syria5
- Révision des Rhombodontidae (Neoselachii, Batomorphi) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc5
- Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology4
- Découverte de nouvelles faunes de sélaciens (Neoselachii) dans les phosphates maastrichtiens de la Mer Rouge, Egypte1
Each of the 15 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 Rhombodus meridionalis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Rhombodus meridionalis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Rhombodus meridionalis 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 itRhombodus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1952