Squalus weltoni
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- SqualusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes
Time the record covers
At least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 37.71 Mya to 33.9 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 27.3 Mya.
17 occurrences of Squalus weltoni on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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
17 occurrencesThese 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
- La Meseta Formation12
- Rio Turbio Formation1
- Kirker Formation1
- Pittsburg Bluff Formation1
- Quimper Formation1
- Submeseta Formation1
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The named rock units Squalus weltoni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Squalus weltoni and its relatives
EoceneWhere Squalus weltoni and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
124 taxa- Brachycarcharias lerichei9 sites
- Pristiophorus laevis9 sites
- Squatina9 sites
- Striatolamia macrota8 sites
- Myliobatiformes6 sites
- Squalus woodburnei6 sites
- Eodalatias austrinalis5 sites
- Palaeohypotodus5 sites
- Ischyodus dolloi4 sites
- Myliobatis4 sites
- Notoramphoscyllium woodwardi4 sites
- Odontaspididae4 sites
- Antarctodolops dailyi3 sites
- Centrophorus3 sites
- Coelometlaouia pannucea3 sites
- Kallodentis rhytistemma3 sites
- Meridiogaleus cristatus3 sites
- Mustelus3 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri3 sites
- Palaeohypotodus rutoti3 sites
- Raja amphitrita3 sites
- Raja manitaria3 sites
- Testudines3 sites
- Acanthopterygii indet.2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 17 sites for Squalus weltoni, 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
4 references- Eocene squalomorph sharks (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) from Antarctica7
- Sharks from the La Meseta Formation (Eocene), Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula5
- Middle Eocene chondrichthyan fauna from Antarctic Peninsula housed in the Museo de La Plata, Argentina4
- New chondrichthyans from Bartonian-Priabonian levels of Río de Las Minas and Sierra Dorotea, Magallanes Basin, Chilean Patagonia1
Each of the 17 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 content0
No picture of Squalus weltoni 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 Squalus weltoni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squalus weltoni was found in Sketchfab.
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 itSqualus through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Long 1992