Aetobatus cappettai
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AetobatusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 4.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 7.246 Mya and 2.58 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Aetobatus cappettai on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
4 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
1 formation
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The named rock units Aetobatus cappettai has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aetobatus cappettai and its relatives
MioceneWhere Aetobatus cappettai and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Bathytoshia centroura3 sites
- Carcharhinus perezi3 sites
- Carcharias acutissima3 sites
- Dasyatis3 sites
- Dasyatis gigas3 sites
- Dasyatis pastinaca3 sites
- Fontitrygon margaritella3 sites
- Galeorhinus goncalvesi3 sites
- Gymnura3 sites
- Isurus desori3 sites
- Megascyliorhinus miocaenicus3 sites
- Mustelus3 sites
- Myliobatis aquila3 sites
- Pachyscyllium dachiardi3 sites
- Paragaleus antunesi3 sites
- Prolagus3 sites
- Pteromylaeus3 sites
- Raja3 sites
- Rhinobatos3 sites
- Rhinoptera3 sites
- Sphyrna3 sites
- Alopias superciliosus2 sites
- Anoxypristis2 sites
- Blancomys2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Aetobatus cappettai, 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- Latest Miocene myliobatids (Batoidei, Selachii) from the Alvalade Basin, Portugal3
- Another thermophilic "Miocene survivor" from the Italian Pliocene: A geologically young occurrence of the pelagic eagle ray Aetobatus in the Euro-Mediterranean region1
Each of the 4 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 Aetobatus cappettai 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 Aetobatus cappettai, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aetobatus cappettai 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 itAetobatus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Antunes and Balbino 2006