Carcharias gracilis

Carcharias gracilis Philippi, 1887, a relative of Carcharias gracilis — not Carcharias gracilis itself

Not Carcharias gracilis. This is Carcharias gracilis Philippi, 1887, a relative — both are Carcharhinidae.

Rasmussen, Alice · CC BY 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
CarchariasPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 17 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 41.03 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 3 of 11 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 11 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 3 of 11 occurrencesEocene73–72 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences67–66 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 1 occurrence65–64 Mya — about 1 occurrence64–63 Mya — about 1 occurrence63–62 Mya — about 1 occurrence62–61 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences43–41 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya48.07 Mya72.8 Mya40.4 Mya

11 occurrences of Carcharias gracilis on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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

11 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

7 formations

Marnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WRødvig — 55.32°N, 12.44°EKøbenhavn Limestone — 55.57°N, 12.93°ETorme — 42.67°N, 2.63°WEstratos de Quebrada Municipalidad — 33.37°S, 71.67°WFaxe — 55.26°N, 12.13°ETor — 55.32°N, 12.44°E

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The named rock units Carcharias gracilis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharias gracilis and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Carcharias gracilis and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

138 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Carcharias gracilis, 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

7 references

Each of the 11 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

Media content1

Picture of Carcharias gracilis Philippi, 1887

Source
GBIF
Credit
Rasmussen, Alice
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carcharias gracilis 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.

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

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What may have been alongside itCarcharias through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Davis 1890)