Squaliformes

The Squaliformes are an order of sharks that includes about 126 species in seven families.

Squaliformes

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SqualomorphiPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB
Life habit
nektonicPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 11.7 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Triassic — about 3 of 1034 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 1034 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 3 of 1034 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 1034 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 51 of 1034 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 246 of 1034 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 91 of 1034 occurrencesEocene — about 208 of 1034 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 101 of 1034 occurrencesMiocene — about 268 of 1034 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 40 of 1034 occurrencesPleistocene — about 23 of 1034 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 2 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences168–161 Mya — about 3 occurrences133–126 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences126–119 Mya — about 3 occurrences119–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–105 Mya — about 19 occurrences105–98 Mya — about 37 occurrences98–91 Mya — about 20 occurrences91–84 Mya — about 13 occurrences84–77 Mya — about 50 occurrences77–70 Mya — about 77 occurrences70–63 Mya — about 111 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 55 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 36 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 68 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 96 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 88 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 33 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 163 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 79 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 78 occurrences201.4 Mya11.7 ka210 Mya0 Mya

1,034 occurrences of Squaliformes on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

1,034 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

186 formations

Boom Clay — 51.13°N, 4.26°EBoom Clay — 51.12°N, 4.35°EBoom Clay — 51.19°N, 4.32°EBoom Clay — 51.16°N, 4.13°EMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WHunstanton — 54.15°N, 0.17°WHunstanton — 53.68°N, 0.50°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WLa Meseta — 64.25°S, 56.67°WDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EDongen — 52.12°N, 6.72°ELaksarska Nova Ves — 48.59°N, 17.38°EByala — 42.88°N, 27.90°EGerhartsreit — 47.80°N, 12.62°ENorthumberland — 49.55°N, 124.70°WNorthumberland — 49.54°N, 124.71°WNierental — 47.66°N, 14.86°EGerhartsreit — 47.94°N, 13.01°ENeuhofen — 48.50°N, 14.28°EMesaverde — 44.08°N, 107.74°WMesaverde — 44.10°N, 107.75°WMesaverde — 44.17°N, 107.81°WArgille Azzurre — 44.72°N, 10.08°EArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°EArgille Azzurre — 44.26°N, 11.66°EArgille Azzurre — 44.24°N, 11.76°EWaipara Greensand — 43.05°S, 172.62°EWaipara Greensand — 43.12°S, 172.48°EMiretrain Marl — 43.57°N, 1.11°WOiching — 47.94°N, 13.01°EMakino — 34.75°N, 136.27°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.62°N, 0.07°WLondon Clay — 51.38°N, 0.24°WLondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLabguva — 54.88°N, 23.92°ELabguva — 55.09°N, 22.90°EStromberg — 51.82°N, 8.19°ESpeeton Clay — 54.15°N, 0.17°WFox Hills — 46.47°N, 99.58°WFox Hills — 46.38°N, 100.85°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°E

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The named rock units Squaliformes has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 162 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 254 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Squaliformes and its relatives

Miocene

Where Squaliformes and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

2,931 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 609 sites for Squaliformes, and this reads 240 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

229 references

Each of the 1,034 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. 217 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

Picture of Squaliformes

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NOAA
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Squaliformes 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

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CC BY-SA 4.0

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. (Goodrich 1909)