Abdounia biauriculata

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. 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
- AbdouniaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Time the record covers
At least 7.9 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 41.03 Mya.
6 occurrences of Abdounia biauriculata on record. 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
6 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
3 formations
- Tuffeau de St-Omer Formation3
- London Clay Formation2
- Lisbon Formation · Claiborne Group1
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The named rock units Abdounia biauriculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Found in the same rock
215 taxa- Jaekelotodus robustus6 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri6 sites
- Pachygaleus lefevrei6 sites
- Carcharias hopei5 sites
- Squalus minor5 sites
- Squatina prima5 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni4 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei4 sites
- Isurolamna inflata4 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti4 sites
- Anomotodon novus3 sites
- Elasmodus hunteri3 sites
- Galeorhinus3 sites
- Glueckmanotodus heinzelini3 sites
- Heterodontus lerichei3 sites
- Hypolophodon sylvestris3 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis3 sites
- Jacquhermania duponti3 sites
- Otodus obliquus3 sites
- Palaeogaleus vincenti3 sites
- Palaeohypotodus rutoti3 sites
- Paraorthacodus clarkii3 sites
- Scyliorhinus3 sites
- Squalus orpiensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 6 sites for Abdounia biauriculata, 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
3 references- Les élasmobranches du Thanétien (Paléocène) du Nord de la France, des carrières de Templeuve et de Leforest3
- Casier, 19662
- A selachian fauna from the middle Eocene (Lutetian, Lisbon Formation) of Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama, USA1
Each of the 6 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 content1

Picture of Abdounia biauriculata
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- Yale Peabody Museum
- Licence
- CC0
- Commercial use
- the licence allows it
No 3D scan of Abdounia biauriculata 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 itAbdounia through timeThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Casier 1946)