Texatrygon
No picture of Texatrygon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Texatrygon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- PtychotrygonidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At least 27 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 63.4 Mya.
61 occurrences of Texatrygon 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
61 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
27 formations
- Mesaverde Formation8
- Fox Hills Formation · Montana Group6
- Aguja Formation5
- Lance Formation5
- Hell Creek Formation · Montana Group4
- Eutaw Formation4
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The named rock units Texatrygon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Texatrygon and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Texatrygon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
687 taxa- Ischyrhiza mira27 sites
- Squalicorax kaupi21 sites
- Odontaspis aculeatus20 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis19 sites
- Myledaphus bipartitus19 sites
- Protoplatyrhina renae18 sites
- Scapanorhynchus texanus18 sites
- Cretorectolobus olsoni16 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata15 sites
- Squatina (Cretascyllium) hassei15 sites
- Hadrosauridae14 sites
- Paralbula casei14 sites
- Carcharias holmdelensis13 sites
- Carcharias samhammeri13 sites
- Crocodylia13 sites
- Trionychidae13 sites
- Hybodus12 sites
- Lonchidion selachos12 sites
- Chiloscyllium greeni11 sites
- Meristodonoides montanensis11 sites
- Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi11 sites
- Rhinobatos casieri11 sites
- Lepisosteus occidentalis10 sites
- Ptychotrygon triangularis10 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 57 sites for Texatrygon, 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
40 references- A new selachian fauna from the late Campanian of Wyoming (Teapot Sandstone Member, Mesaverde Formation, Big Horn Basin)8
- Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan paleofaunas from the Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota, USA: paleoecology, paleogeography, and extinction5
- Fossil vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Lance Formation, eastern Wyoming5
- An Upper Cretaceous (middle Campanian) marine chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the Rattlesnake Mountain sandstone member of the Aguja Formation in West Texas2
- A note on Late Cretaceous fish taxa recovered from stream gravels at site AGr-43 in Greene County, Alabama2
- Selachians from the Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) Hosta Tongue of the Point Lookout Sandstone, central New Mexico2
- Late Cretaceous chondrichthyans from the Woodhawk bonebed, Judith River Formation (Campanian), Fergus County, Montana2
- Additions aux faunes de sélaciens du Crétacé du Texas (Albien supérieur-Campanien)2
- Selachians from the Greenhorn Cyclothem ("Middle" Cretaceous: Cenomanian-Turonian), Black Mesa, Arizona, and the paleogeographic distribution of Late Cretaceous selachians2
- Vertebrate paleoecology from microsites, Talley Mountain, Upper Aguja Formation (Late Cretaceous), Big Bend National Park, Texas, USA1
- A late Campanian (Cretaceous) selachian assemblage from a classic locality in Florence County, South Carolina1
- Vertebrate biostratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation in southwestern North Dakota and northwestern South Dakota1
Each of the 61 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. 28 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 content0
No picture of Texatrygon was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Texatrygon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Texatrygon 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itPtychotrygonidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Cappetta and Case 1999