Squalus worlandensis
No picture of Squalus worlandensis 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 worlandensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
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 most 12 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 72.2 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
14 occurrences of Squalus worlandensis 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
14 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
2 formations
Loading coastlines…
The named rock units Squalus worlandensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Squalus worlandensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Squalus worlandensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
37 taxa- Meristodonoides montanensis13 sites
- Odontaspis aculeatus13 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis12 sites
- Carcharias steineri12 sites
- Cretorectolobus olsoni12 sites
- Ischyrhiza mira12 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus12 sites
- Protoplatyrhina renae12 sites
- Scapanorhynchus texanus10 sites
- Synechodus turneri10 sites
- Lonchidion griffisi9 sites
- Pseudodontaspis herbsti8 sites
- Carcharias holmdelensis7 sites
- Texatrygon avonicola7 sites
- Rhinobatos casieri6 sites
- Squalicorax kaupi6 sites
- Brachaelurus bighornensis5 sites
- Archaeotriakis ornatus4 sites
- Columbusia roessingi4 sites
- Ptychotrygon boothi4 sites
- Archaeotriakis rochelleae3 sites
- Cimolomys clarki3 sites
- Hybodus wyomingensis3 sites
- Theria3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Squalus worlandensis, 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- A new selachian fauna from the late Campanian of Wyoming (Teapot Sandstone Member, Mesaverde Formation, Big Horn Basin)12
- A late Campanian euselachian assemblage from the Bearpaw Formation of Alberta, Canada: some notable range extensions2
Each of the 14 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 worlandensis 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 worlandensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Squalus worlandensis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itSqualus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Case 1987)