Carcharhinus acanthodon

katz86 · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CarcharhinusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 13.82 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 15.98 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
5 occurrences of Carcharhinus acanthodon on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
5 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Sekinobana Formation1
- Maenami Formation1
- Uscari Formation · Limon Group1
- Breda Formation1
- Szurdokpüspöki Formation1
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The named rock units Carcharhinus acanthodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Carcharhinus acanthodon and its relatives
MioceneWhere Carcharhinus acanthodon and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
102 taxa- Galeocerdo aduncus4 sites
- Otodus megalodon4 sites
- Carcharhinus priscus3 sites
- Carcharias acutissimus3 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus3 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis3 sites
- Squatina3 sites
- Alopias superciliosus2 sites
- Araloselachus vorax2 sites
- Cetorhinus maximus2 sites
- Cosmopolitodus planus2 sites
- Dasyatis2 sites
- Diplodus2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Isurus desori2 sites
- Isurus retroflexus2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Pagrus2 sites
- Paleoparadoxia2 sites
- Pristiophorus2 sites
- Raja2 sites
- Scoliodon taxandriae2 sites
- Scyliorhinus2 sites
- Squalus2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Carcharhinus acanthodon, 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- Late Cenozoic elasmobranchs from the Hokuriku district, central Japan2
- A partial rostrum of the porbeagle shark Lamna nasus (Lamniformes, Lamnidae) from the Miocene of the North Sea Basin and the taxonomic importance of rostral morphology in extinct sharks1
- Los selaceos fósiles de Ia localidad de Alto Guayacan ( y otros ictiolitos asociados)1
- Tengeri halmaradványok a Hasznos környéki felső-miocénből1
Each of the 5 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 the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
Media content1

Picture of Carcharhinus acanthodon
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- katz86
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itCarcharhinus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Le Hon 1871)