Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- BrachyrhizodusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 20 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 85.7 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
24 occurrences of Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis 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
24 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
9 formations
- Navesink Formation · Monmouth Group6
- Marshalltown Formation · Matawan Group4
- Mount Laurel Formation · Monmouth Group3
- Tar Heel Formation · Black Creek Group3
- Blufftown Formation1
- Cusseta Formation1
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The named rock units Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
330 taxa- Ischyrhiza mira19 sites
- Scapanorhynchus texanus19 sites
- Rhombodus levis18 sites
- Squalicorax kaupi18 sites
- Squalicorax pristodontus17 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis15 sites
- Carcharias samhammeri14 sites
- Hybodus14 sites
- Protolamna borodini14 sites
- Squatina (Cretascyllium) hassei14 sites
- Carcharias holmdelensis11 sites
- Paralbula casei11 sites
- Paranomotodon angustidens11 sites
- Plicatoscyllium globidens11 sites
- Ptychotrygon vermiculata11 sites
- Anomoeodus phaseolus10 sites
- Ischyodus bifurcatus10 sites
- Lonchidion babulskii10 sites
- Odontaspis aculeatus9 sites
- Stephanodus9 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata8 sites
- Pseudohypolophus8 sites
- Rhinobatos casieri8 sites
- Carcharias hardingi7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis, 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
19 references- Contribution a l'étude des sélaciens du Groupe Monmouth (Campanien-Maestrichtian) du New Jersey5
- A guide to fossil sharks, skates, and rays from the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal area, Delaware2
- An Upper Cretaceous (middle Campanian) marine chondrichthyan and osteichthyan fauna from the Rattlesnake Mountain sandstone member of the Aguja Formation in West Texas1
- Vertebrate Paleontology and Stratigraphy of the Late Cretaceous Holmdel Park Site, Monmouth County, New Jersey1
- Vertebrate Paleontology and Taphonomy of the Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Bladen Formation, Bladen County, North Carolina1
- A late Campanian (Cretaceous) selachian assemblage from a classic locality in Florence County, South Carolina1
- Sélaciens du Crétacé (Albien-Maastrichtien) d'Angola1
- Alphadon (Marsupialia) and Multituberculata (Allotheria) in the Cretaceous of eastern North America1
- A guide to the Frankstown vertebrate fossil locality (Upper Cretaceous), Prentiss County, Mississippi1
- The Upper Cretaceous (Campanian, Black Creek Formation) fossil fish fauna of Phoebus Landing, Bladen County, North Carolina1
- Late Cretaceous fish from the Blufftown Formation (Campanian) in western Georgia1
- Paleontology, biostratigraphy, and depositional environments of the Cretaceous-Tertiary transition in the New Jersey coastal plain1
Each of the 24 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. 7 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.
Media and terms
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No picture of Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis 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 Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Brachyrhizodus wichitaensis 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Romer 1942