Cantioscyllium

Cantioscyllium is an extinct genus of nurse shark from the Mesozoic era. It is known mainly from isolated teeth, but was named on a partial skeleton from the Late Cretaceous of England. It is a widespread and diverse genus, currently containing 10 species. They are uncommon but present throughout the late cretaceous of the eastern United States, including the Severn Formation of Maryland, the Tar Heel and Peedee formations of North Carolina, and Campanian of New Jersey. It is also known from the Western Interior Seaway and western Europe. C. hashimiaensis is known from the Santonian of Jordan. C. alhaulfi is from the Barremian.

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
GinglymostomatidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 72 million years on record.

The record covers at least 145.06 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 152.21 Mya to 66 Mya.

Late Jurassic — about 1 of 51 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 1 of 51 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 49 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences154–151 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences148–145 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences127–124 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences124–121 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences103–100 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences100–97 Mya — about 6 occurrences97–94 Mya — about 6 occurrences94–91 Mya — about 5 occurrences91–88 Mya — about 4 occurrences88–85 Mya — about 4 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 6 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 2 occurrences79–76 Mya — about 2 occurrences76–73 Mya — about 2 occurrences73–70 Mya — about 4 occurrences70–67 Mya — about 5 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 2 occurrences145.06 Mya72.2 Mya154 Mya64 Mya

51 occurrences of Cantioscyllium 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

51 occurrences

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

25 formations

Hell Creek — 47.52°N, 106.40°WHell Creek — 47.52°N, 107.18°WHell Creek — 45.66°N, 105.08°WHell Creek — 47.60°N, 106.92°WCarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 43.40°N, 103.36°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 44.09°N, 104.68°WIron Springs — 37.80°N, 112.81°WIron Springs — 37.37°N, 113.35°WPoint Lookout — 35.20°N, 107.05°WEutaw — 32.38°N, 84.93°WEutaw — 33.49°N, 88.39°WStraight Cliffs — 35.57°N, 112.86°WKemp Clay — 33.21°N, 95.92°WWadi Umm Ghudran — 31.18°N, 35.70°EDonoho Creek — 34.06°N, 79.53°WLa Cabaña — 43.34°N, 5.84°WKimmeridge Clay — 50.63°N, 2.34°WPictured Cliffs Sandstone — 35.70°N, 107.00°WLewisville — 32.88°N, 97.07°WTaylor Marl — 33.46°N, 95.94°WHibernian Greensand — 54.95°N, 5.91°WNavesink — 40.38°N, 74.21°WTar Heel — 34.61°N, 78.60°WWilliams Fork — 40.03°N, 108.85°WWahweap — 37.60°N, 111.35°WDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°WAguja — 29.46°N, 103.56°WAtco — 32.53°N, 96.99°WPeedee — 34.38°N, 77.83°WLance — 43.12°N, 104.64°W

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The named rock units Cantioscyllium has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. One further formation holds fewer occurrences and is not listed. 15 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cantioscyllium and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cantioscyllium and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

671 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 49 sites for Cantioscyllium, 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

34 references

Each of the 51 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. 22 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 Cantioscyllium 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 Cantioscyllium, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cantioscyllium 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.

The description on this site

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This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itGinglymostomatidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1889