Carcharhinus collatus

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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 8.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 7.246 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 5.333 Mya.
5 occurrences of Carcharhinus collatus 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
4 formations
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group2
- Leitha Limestone Formation1
- Port Willunga Formation1
- Black Rock Sandstone Formation1
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The named rock units Carcharhinus collatus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Carcharhinus collatus and its relatives
MioceneWhere Carcharhinus collatus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
118 taxa- Carcharias cuspidatus4 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis3 sites
- Isurus desorii3 sites
- Otodus megalodon3 sites
- Galeocerdo aduncus2 sites
- Hemipristis serra2 sites
- Physogaleus contortus2 sites
- Aetobatis arcuatus1 site
- Amphicyon1 site
- Archaeohippus1 site
- Astarte cuneiformis1 site
- Aturia coxi1 site
- Balaena1 site
- Balaenidae1 site
- Balaenoptera1 site
- Caperea1 site
- Carcharhinus brachyurus1 site
- Carcharias contortidens1 site
- Carcharias crassidens1 site
- Carcharias taurus1 site
- Carcharias victoriae1 site
- Carchariolamna heroni1 site
- Carcharodon carcharias1 site
- Carettochelyidae indet.1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Carcharhinus collatus, 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
5 references- Fossil Elasmobranch teeth of South Australia and their stratigraphic distribution1
- Szczatki ryb z wapieni mioceilskich Pinczowa (Les restes de poissons des calcaires miocenes a Lithothamnium de Pinczow)1
- New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group1
- Systematic Paleontology: Pisces1
- Geological and paleontological relations, with a review of earlier investigations1
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 collatus
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- katz86
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Carcharhinus collatus 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 itCarcharhinus through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Eastman 1904)