Selachii

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

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
sharkPBDB
Sits inside
ElasmobranchiiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 335 million years on record.

The record covers at least 335.9 Mya to 774 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 339.9 Mya to 129 ka.

Carboniferous — about 24 of 123 occurrencesCarboniferousPermian — about 0 of 123 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 0 of 123 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 1 of 123 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 7 of 123 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 123 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 1 of 123 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 3 of 123 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 2 of 123 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 43 of 123 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 9 of 123 occurrencesEocene — about 20 of 123 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 123 occurrencesMiocene — about 8 of 123 occurrencesPliocene — about 1 of 123 occurrencesPleistocene — about 1 of 123 occurrences347–335 Mya — about 1 occurrence324–312 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences312–300 Mya — about 21 occurrences300–289 Mya — about 2 occurrences254–243 Mya — about 1 occurrence243–231 Mya — about 2 occurrences231–220 Mya — about 1 occurrence208–196 Mya — about 4 occurrences173–162 Mya — about 1 occurrence162–150 Mya — about 1 occurrence150–139 Mya — about 2 occurrences139–127 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences127–116 Mya — about 0.9 occurrences116–104 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences104–92 Mya — about 11 occurrences92–81 Mya — about 10 occurrences81–69 Mya — about 15 occurrences69–58 Mya — about 12 occurrences58–46 Mya — about 18 occurrences46–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–12 Mya — about 4 occurrences12–0 Mya — about 6 occurrences335.9 Mya774 ka347 Mya0 Mya

123 occurrences of Selachii on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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

123 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

68 formations

Cherryvale shale — 39.07°N, 94.64°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.58°N, 86.74°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 32.08°N, 88.22°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.92°N, 87.97°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.40°N, 85.13°WHatchetigbee Bluff — 31.07°N, 88.03°WTuscahoma — 31.82°N, 87.37°WTuscahoma — 31.83°N, 87.53°WTuscahoma — 32.08°N, 88.22°WTuscahoma — 31.33°N, 85.58°WForaker — 39.83°N, 95.37°WTropic Shale — 37.08°N, 111.64°WTropic Shale — 37.07°N, 111.54°WTropic Shale — 37.13°N, 111.44°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.92°N, 98.90°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.65°N, 103.93°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.38°WSelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WNanafalia — 31.82°N, 86.62°WNanafalia — 31.65°N, 86.70°WNanafalia — 31.70°N, 84.85°WMinturn — 39.90°N, 107.77°WVarswater — 32.98°S, 18.15°ELondon Clay — 51.85°N, 1.27°ESanta Margarita — 37.00°N, 122.00°WSanta Margarita — 37.07°N, 122.05°WMaevarano — 15.91°S, 46.58°EMaevarano — 16.13°S, 45.63°ETendaguru — 9.70°S, 39.23°EGrès de Mortinsart — 49.70°N, 5.66°EMarnes de Lestaillats — 43.17°N, 1.01°EChitarwata — 30.08°N, 70.33°ERaibl — 47.36°N, 11.48°ERaibl — 47.33°N, 11.46°EEctor Chalk — 33.54°N, 96.36°WEctor Chalk — 33.71°N, 96.66°WPeedee — 35.77°N, 78.64°WBlack Creek — 35.77°N, 78.64°WSubathu — 30.98°N, 76.98°EKamyshin — 48.63°N, 44.06°EBrussles — 50.92°N, 4.56°E

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The named rock units Selachii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 44 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 8 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Selachii and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Selachii and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,650 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 109 sites for Selachii, 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

70 references

Each of the 123 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. 58 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

Media content1

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Selachii 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 Selachii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

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 itElasmobranchii through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0.