Rhynchobatus pristinus

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RhynchobatusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes

Time the record covers

At least 26 million years on record.

The record covers at least 33.9 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 37.71 Mya to 5.333 Mya.

Eocene — about 1 of 27 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 6 of 27 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 20 of 27 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 27 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences33–32 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences32–31 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences31–29 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences29–28 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences28–27 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences27–26 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences26–25 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences25–24 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences24–23 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences23–22 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences22–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 1 occurrence19–18 Mya — about 1 occurrence18–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence16–15 Mya — about 2 occurrences15–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 4 occurrences13–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences10–9.2 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences9.2–8.1 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences8.1–6.9 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences6.9–5.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.8–4.7 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences33.9 Mya7.246 Mya38.4 Mya4.7 Mya

27 occurrences of Rhynchobatus pristinus on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

27 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

15 formations

Chitarwata — 29.02°N, 68.99°EChitarwata — 28.85°N, 69.13°EEsbarrondadoiro — 38.17°N, 8.17°WEsbarrondadoiro — 39.30°N, 8.12°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WTrent — 35.07°N, 77.15°WCalvert — 38.75°N, 76.97°WChandler Bridge — 33.03°N, 80.27°WGlobigerina Limestone — 36.08°N, 14.24°EFlorianer Schichten — 46.87°N, 15.40°EHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EUscari — 9.57°N, 82.57°WAshawaq — 17.00°N, 53.00°EDry Branch — 33.50°N, 84.74°WCatahoula — 31.66°N, 88.66°WAshawq — 17.06°N, 54.42°EUpper Marine Molasse — 48.56°N, 10.06°E

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The named rock units Rhynchobatus pristinus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Rhynchobatus pristinus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Rhynchobatus pristinus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

521 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 27 sites for Rhynchobatus pristinus, 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

19 references

Each of the 27 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. 7 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

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No picture of Rhynchobatus pristinus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.

GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Rhynchobatus pristinus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Probst 1877