Usakias
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AlopiidaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 19 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 56 Mya and 37.71 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Usakias 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
8 occurrences- Eocene100%
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
5 formations
- Fürstenau Formation1
- Kuma Formation1
- Lillebælt Clay Formation1
- Kressenberg Formation1
- Turkestan Formation1
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The named rock units Usakias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Usakias and its relatives
EoceneWhere Usakias and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
145 taxa- Otodus auriculatus6 sites
- Striatolamia macrota6 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis5 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri4 sites
- Squatina prima4 sites
- Burnhamia3 sites
- Carcharias3 sites
- Eostegostoma angustum3 sites
- Heptranchias howellii3 sites
- Heterodontus vincenti3 sites
- Isistius trituratus3 sites
- Isurolamna inflata3 sites
- Isurus praecursor3 sites
- Jaekelotodus trigonalis3 sites
- Myliobatis3 sites
- Physogaleus tertius3 sites
- Rhynchobatus3 sites
- Striatolamia3 sites
- Trigonotodus tusbairicus3 sites
- Xiphodolamia ensis3 sites
- Abdounia minutissima2 sites
- Aetobatus2 sites
- Anomotodon2 sites
- Archaeomanta melenhorsti2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Usakias, 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
7 references- Structure and ichthyofauna of the upper part of Eocene sediments in Belogorsk area (Crimea)2
- Paralopias follioti n. gen. n. sp., un nouvel Alopiidae Bonaparte, 1838 (Elasmobranchii, Lamniformes) provenant du Serravallien (Miocène Moyen) de Salles (Gironde, France)1
- A mesopelagic selachian fauna from the middle Eocene of St. Pankraz (Austria) reveals homogeneity in deep-marine environments during the warm period in Europe1
- The Turanian Basin in the Eocene: the new data on the fossil sharks and rays from the Kyzylkum Desert (Uzbekistan)1
- A study of the sharks and rays from the Lillebælt Clay (Early-Middle Eocene) of Denmark, and their palaeoecology1
- Eocene (Lutetian) Shark-Rich Coastal Paleoenvironments of the Southern North Sea Basin in Europe: Biodiversity of the Marine Fu ̈rstenau Formation Including Early White and Megatooth Sharks1
- Elasmobranchii and Palaeogene biostratigraphy of Trans Urals and central Asia1
Each of the 8 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
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No picture of Usakias 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 Usakias, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Usakias 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 itAlopiidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Zhelezko and Kozlov 1999