Brachycarcharias atlasi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachycarchariasPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At least 7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 48.07 Mya to 41.03 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 56 Mya to 37.71 Mya.
7 occurrences of Brachycarcharias atlasi 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
7 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
- Tallahatta Formation · Claiborne Group2
- Aalter Formation2
- Gosport Sand Formation · Claiborne Group1
- Bandah Formation1
- Observatory Formation1
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The named rock units Brachycarcharias atlasi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Brachycarcharias atlasi and its relatives
EoceneWhere Brachycarcharias atlasi and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.
Found in the same rock
222 taxa- Brachycarcharias lerichei5 sites
- Abdounia beaugei4 sites
- Aetomylaeus4 sites
- Odontaspididae4 sites
- Rhinoptera4 sites
- Striatolamia macrota4 sites
- Abdounia minutissima3 sites
- Albula eppsi3 sites
- Albula oweni3 sites
- Anomotodon3 sites
- Anoxypristis3 sites
- Burnhamia daviesi3 sites
- Coupatezia3 sites
- Cylindracanthus3 sites
- Dasyatis3 sites
- Egertonia isodonta3 sites
- Heterodontus3 sites
- Hypotodus verticalis3 sites
- Jaekelotodus robustus3 sites
- Myliobatis3 sites
- Nebrius thielensi3 sites
- Ostraciidae3 sites
- Phyllodus toliapicus3 sites
- Physogaleus alabamensis3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Brachycarcharias atlasi, 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
4 references- Taxonomy and biostratigraphy of the elasmobranchs and bony fishes (Chondrichthyes and Osteichthyes) of the lower-to-middle Eocene (Ypresian to Bartonian) Claiborne Group in Alabama, USA, including an analysis of otoliths3
- Sur la faune ichthyologique des formations du Panisel et de Den Hoorn (Eocène Belge)2
- Qualitative and quantitative analyses of Middle Eocene odontaspidid shark (Brachycarcharias) from Wadi Garawi area, north Eastern Desert, Egypt1
- Additions to the elasmobranch assemblage from the Bandah Formation (middle Eocene, Bartonian), Jaisalmer District, Rajasthan, India, and the palaeobiogeographic implications of the fauna1
Each of the 7 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 Brachycarcharias atlasi 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 Brachycarcharias atlasi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachycarcharias atlasi was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itBrachycarcharias through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arambourg 1952)