Carcharhinus frequens

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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 25 million years on record.

The record covers at least 41.03 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 48.07 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Eocene — about 29 of 31 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 31 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 31 occurrencesMiocene49–48 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 2 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 3 occurrences39–37 Mya — about 4 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 6 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 6 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 5 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences22–21 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences21–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41.03 Mya15.98 Mya48.8 Mya10.9 Mya

31 occurrences of Carcharhinus frequens 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

31 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

16 formations

Gehannam — 29.32°N, 30.14°EGehannam — 29.32°N, 30.17°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.02°EBirket Qarun — 29.50°N, 30.56°EBirket Qarun — 29.45°N, 30.36°ESamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WQasr El Sagha — 28.82°N, 29.14°EQasr El Sagha — 29.64°N, 30.97°EWadi Garawi — 29.97°N, 31.33°EWadi Garawi — 29.99°N, 31.09°EMaadi — 30.08°N, 31.25°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.60°N, 30.67°EWadi Esh-Shallala — 31.57°N, 37.12°ELangental Beds — 27.40°S, 15.41°EBaripada Limestone — 21.93°N, 86.72°EDammam — 25.22°N, 50.83°EElQurn — 29.97°N, 31.14°EQasr ElSagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°EMidawara — 28.64°N, 30.88°EBeni Suef — 29.30°N, 31.31°EElGharaq — 28.82°N, 28.14°E

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The named rock units Carcharhinus frequens 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.

Carcharhinus frequens and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carcharhinus frequens and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 23 sites for Carcharhinus frequens, 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

9 references

Each of the 31 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 Carcharhinus frequens 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 Carcharhinus frequens, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Carcharhinus frequens 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 EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dames 1883)