Squalicorax microserratus
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SqualicoraxPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
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.
6 occurrences of Squalicorax microserratus 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
6 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Squalicorax microserratus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 5 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Squalicorax microserratus and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Squalicorax microserratus and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
60 taxa- Squalicorax pristodontus5 sites
- Bothremydidae4 sites
- Chelonioidea4 sites
- Cretalamna maroccana4 sites
- Cretomanta4 sites
- Ctenopristis nougareti4 sites
- Eremiasaurus heterodontus4 sites
- Ganopristis leptodon4 sites
- Halisaurus arambourgi4 sites
- Plicatoscyllium gharbii4 sites
- Plioplatecarpinae4 sites
- Prognathodon currii4 sites
- Rhombodus meridionalis4 sites
- Serratolamna khderii4 sites
- Stratodus apicalis4 sites
- Dalpiazia stromeri3 sites
- Elasmosauridae3 sites
- Enchodus elegans3 sites
- Globidens phosphaticus3 sites
- Hypsobatis3 sites
- Pachyvaranus crassispondylus3 sites
- Rhinobatos3 sites
- Rhombodus microdon3 sites
- Squalicorax bassanii3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Squalicorax microserratus, 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- New Squalicorax species (Neoselachii: Lamniformes) from the Lower Maastrichtian of Ganntour phosphate deposit, Morocco5
- Late Cretaceous anacoracid sharks (Squalicorax) from Duwi Formation, Gebel Duwi, central Eastern Desert, Egypt: qualitative and quantitative analyses1
Each of the 6 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Squalicorax microserratus was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
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 Squalicorax microserratus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squalicorax microserratus 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.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itSqualicorax through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta et al. 2014