Australopristis wiffeni
No picture of Australopristis wiffeni 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 Australopristis wiffeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- AustralopristisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
2 occurrences of Australopristis wiffeni 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
2 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
2 formations
- Conway Formation · Eyre Group1
- Tahora Formation · Mata Group1
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The named rock units Australopristis wiffeni has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Australopristis wiffeni and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Australopristis wiffeni and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
24 taxa- Aristonectinae1 site
- Ceratosauria1 site
- Dinosauria1 site
- Dryosauridae1 site
- Elasmobranchii1 site
- Elasmosauridae1 site
- Gigantocapulus problematicus1 site
- Homolodromia novaezelandica1 site
- Isselicrinus mangahouangaensis1 site
- Mosasauridae1 site
- Nodosauridae1 site
- Ostrea1 site
- Plesiosauria1 site
- Plesiosauria indet.1 site
- Protostegidae1 site
- Pterodactyloidea1 site
- Pterosauria1 site
- Sauropoda1 site
- Taniwhasaurus oweni1 site
- Teleostei1 site
- Theropoda1 site
- Titanosauria1 site
- Torynomma planata1 site
- Tuarangisaurus keyesi1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 2 sites for Australopristis wiffeni, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 2 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Australopristis wiffeni 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 Australopristis wiffeni, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Australopristis wiffeni 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 itAustralopristis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Martill and Ibrahim 2012