Aetobatus irregularis
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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 least 40 million years on record.
The record covers at least 56 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 59.24 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
32 occurrences of Aetobatus irregularis 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
32 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
16 formations
- Selsey Formation · Bracklesham Group4
- Elmore Formation · Bracklesham Group2
- Nanjemoy Formation · Pamunkey Group2
- Samlat Formation2
- London Clay Formation2
- Landana Formation2
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The named rock units Aetobatus irregularis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 6 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Aetobatus irregularis and its relatives
EoceneWhere Aetobatus irregularis and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
600 taxa- Pristis lathami19 sites
- Odontaspis winkleri16 sites
- Aetomylaeus dixoni15 sites
- Brachycarcharias lerichei14 sites
- Abdounia recticona12 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi12 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis12 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti12 sites
- Striatolamia macrota12 sites
- Abdounia11 sites
- Dasyatis jaekeli11 sites
- Galeocerdo latidens11 sites
- Myliobatis11 sites
- Aetomylaeus striatus10 sites
- Carcharias hopei10 sites
- Coupatezia woutersi10 sites
- Cylindracanthus rectus10 sites
- Dasyatis10 sites
- Isurolamna inflata10 sites
- Myliobatis toliapicus10 sites
- Physogaleus secundus10 sites
- Squatina prima10 sites
- Galeorhinus ypresiensis9 sites
- Isurus praecursor9 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Aetobatus irregularis, 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
16 references- Les poissons fossiles du Bas-Congo et des régions voisines6
- The Selsey Division (Bracklesham Group) at Lee-on-the-Solent, Gosport, (Hants)5
- Contribution a l'etude des faunes ichthyologiques marines des terrains tertiaires de la plaine cotiere Atlantique et du centre des Etats-Unis3
- A selachian fauna from the middle Eocene (Lutetian, Lisbon Formation) of Andalusia, Covington County, Alabama, USA2
- Quantitative analysis of elasmobranch assemblages from two successive Ypresian (early Eocene) facies at Marke, western Belgium2
- A Middle–Late Eocene vertebrate fauna (marine fish and mammals) from southwestern Morocco; preliminary report: age and palaeobiogeographical implications2
- Fossiles de Belgique. Dents de Requins et de Raies du Tertiare de la Belgique2
- Casier, 19662
- Part 3: Rays from the Fisher/Sullivan Site1
- A Middle Eocene selachian fauna from the White Mountain Formation of the Kizylum Desert, Uzbekistan, C.I.S1
- Age of vertebrates from the Andarak locality (southern Fergana)1
- The Eocene selachian fauna from the Fayum Depression in Egypt1
Each of the 32 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. 4 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.
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No picture of Aetobatus irregularis 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 irregularis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Aetobatus irregularis 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 EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1843)