Sechmetia aegyptiaca
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SechmetiaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Rajiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Rajiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Rajiformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Sechmetia aegyptiaca 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
4 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 Sechmetia aegyptiaca has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Sechmetia aegyptiaca and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Sechmetia aegyptiaca and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
25 taxa- Asteracanthus aegyptiacus3 sites
- Distobatus nutiae3 sites
- Lissodus bartheli3 sites
- Hybodus aschersoni2 sites
- Marckgrafia libyca2 sites
- Odontaspididae2 sites
- Renpetia labiicarinata2 sites
- Squalicorax baharijensis2 sites
- Aegyptobatus kuehnei1 site
- Baharipristis bastetiae1 site
- Chiloscyllium mereretiae1 site
- Coelodus1 site
- Cretodus longiplicatus1 site
- Distobatus1 site
- Enchodontidae1 site
- Enchodus1 site
- Gymnura laterialata1 site
- Gyrodus1 site
- Isidobatus tricarinatus1 site
- Mafdetia tibniensis1 site
- Odontaspis1 site
- Onchopristis numidus1 site
- Orectoloboides multistriatus1 site
- Peyeria libyca1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Sechmetia aegyptiaca, 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- Die Elasmobranchier-Fauna des Gebel Dist Member der Bahariya Formation (Obercenoman) der Oase Bahariya, Ägypten2
- Ergebnisse der Forschungsreisen Prof. E. Stromers in den Wüsten Ägyptens II. Wirbeltier-Reste der Baharîje-Stufe (unterstes Cenoman) 9. Die Plagiostomen, mit einem Anhang über käno- und mesozoische Rückenflossenstacheln von Elasmobranchiern2
Each of the 4 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Sechmetia aegyptiaca 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 Sechmetia aegyptiaca, 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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What may have been alongside itSechmetia through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Stromer 1927)