Spathobatis

Spathobatis is an extinct genus of rays in the family Asterodermidae from the Jurassic period of Europe.

Spathobatis

Ghedoghedo · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

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

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 170.9 Mya to 110.1 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 174.7 Mya to 106.3 Mya.

Early Jurassic — about 0 of 22 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 4 of 22 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 5 of 22 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 13 of 22 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous176–174 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences174–171 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences171–169 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences169–167 Mya — about 1 occurrence167–164 Mya — about 1 occurrence164–162 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences162–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–157 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences157–155 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences155–152 Mya — about 1 occurrence152–150 Mya — about 2 occurrences150–148 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences145–143 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences138–136 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 1 occurrence133–131 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences131–129 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences129–126 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences126–124 Mya — about 3 occurrences124–122 Mya — about 3 occurrences122–119 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences112–110 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 2 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences170.9 Mya110.1 Mya176 Mya105 Mya

22 occurrences of Spathobatis on record, most of them in the Early 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

22 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

6 formations

Artoles — 40.82°N, 0.28°WSpeeton Clay — 54.16°N, 0.26°WForest Marble — 51.85°N, 0.10°WFrome Clay — 51.85°N, 0.10°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.34°WSot de Chera — 41.12°N, 0.83°W

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The named rock units Spathobatis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 16 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Spathobatis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Spathobatis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

166 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 20 sites for Spathobatis, 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

11 references

Each of the 22 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 content1

Picture of Spathobatis

Credit
Ghedoghedo
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Spathobatis was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itRhinobatidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Thiollière 1849