Striatolamia

Striatolamia is an extinct genus of sharks belonging to the family Odontaspididae. These extinct sharks lived from the Early Paleocene to Late Miocene.

Striatolamia

Hectonichus · 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
MitsukurinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 60 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 5 of 222 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 38 of 222 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 164 of 222 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 7 of 222 occurrencesOligoceneMiocene — about 9 of 222 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 222 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 222 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–63 Mya — about 8 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 5 occurrences60–57 Mya — about 17 occurrences57–54 Mya — about 16 occurrences54–51 Mya — about 14 occurrences51–48 Mya — about 13 occurrences48–45 Mya — about 24 occurrences45–43 Mya — about 26 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 31 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 29 occurrences37–34 Mya — about 14 occurrences34–31 Mya — about 1 occurrence31–28 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences28–26 Mya — about 3 occurrences26–23 Mya — about 4 occurrences23–20 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences20–17 Mya — about 1 occurrence17–14 Mya — about 1 occurrence14–11 Mya — about 3 occurrences11–8.5 Mya — about 2 occurrences8.5–5.7 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences5.7–2.8 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences2.8–0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences72.2 Mya11.63 Mya85 Mya0 Mya

222 occurrences of Striatolamia 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

222 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

100 formations

La Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.60°WLa Meseta — 64.24°S, 56.65°WDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EOsinovaya — 48.40°N, 41.76°EOsinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.93°EOsinovaya — 48.46°N, 41.83°EOsinovaya — 48.38°N, 41.72°ELisbon — 31.36°N, 86.52°WLisbon — 31.83°N, 88.31°WLisbon — 31.75°N, 88.10°WTallahatta — 31.31°N, 88.73°WTallahatta — 31.79°N, 88.32°WTallahatta — 31.39°N, 88.69°WTallahatta — 31.30°N, 86.48°WTallahatta — 31.37°N, 86.52°WGosport Sand — 31.13°N, 87.93°WGosport Sand — 31.53°N, 87.57°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 87.80°WGosport Sand — 31.50°N, 88.50°WGosport Sand — 31.59°N, 88.02°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°EAquia — 38.42°N, 77.26°WAquia — 38.71°N, 77.02°WAquia — 38.46°N, 77.27°WAquia — 38.50°N, 77.59°WTe Whanga Limestone — 43.82°S, 176.50°ETe Whanga Limestone — 44.28°S, 176.77°ERío Baguales — 50.73°S, 72.47°WMarnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WTuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°EAlgarrobo Beds — 33.36°S, 71.68°WVincentown — 39.97°N, 74.68°WVincentown — 39.86°N, 74.82°WEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WLaredo — 27.53°N, 99.43°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 38.60°N, 76.51°WArgiles d'Lignite du Soissonnais — 49.33°N, 2.66°EAkzhar — 46.03°N, 64.65°EKattachi — 33.60°N, 130.58°EKattachi — 33.01°N, 130.48°EStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WLas Flores — 50.74°S, 72.47°WHarudi — 23.49°N, 68.75°EHarudi — 23.52°N, 68.67°ECiply Calcarenite — 50.42°N, 3.94°E

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The named rock units Striatolamia has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 76 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Striatolamia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Striatolamia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

2,121 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 214 sites for Striatolamia, 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

102 references

Each of the 222 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. 90 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 Striatolamia

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

No 3D scan of Striatolamia 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.

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 itMitsukurinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glikman 1964