Carcharias hopei

Carcharias hopei

bdhimes · CC0 · 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 52 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 64 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 10 of 64 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 51 of 64 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 64 occurrencesMiocene — about 1 of 64 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–57 Mya — about 5 occurrences57–55 Mya — about 5 occurrences55–52 Mya — about 5 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 5 occurrences50–48 Mya — about 5 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 6 occurrences46–44 Mya — about 6 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 6 occurrences42–40 Mya — about 4 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 2 occurrences38–36 Mya — about 4 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 3 occurrences15–13 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences66 Mya13.82 Mya73 Mya10 Mya

64 occurrences of Carcharias hopei 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

64 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

28 formations

London Clay — 51.51°N, 0.24°ELondon Clay — 51.62°N, 0.07°WLondon Clay — 51.54°N, 0.16°WLondon Clay — 51.37°N, 1.08°ELondon Clay — 51.40°N, 0.83°ELondon Clay — 51.83°N, 1.25°ELondon Clay — 51.53°N, 0.70°ELondon Clay — 50.78°N, 0.65°WLondon Clay — 50.88°N, 1.30°WLondon Clay — 50.93°N, 1.48°WLondon Clay — 50.80°N, 1.67°WLondon Clay — 51.07°N, 1.74°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WYazoo — 31.71°N, 87.96°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WSables de Bracheux — 49.58°N, 2.65°ESables de Bracheux — 49.53°N, 2.75°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ETuffeau de St-Omer — 50.44°N, 3.07°EDammam — 25.23°N, 50.83°EDammam — 25.40°N, 50.80°EEarnley — 51.08°N, 1.17°WMoodys Branch — 32.23°N, 92.15°WMoodys Branch — 32.90°N, 90.19°WStone City — 30.67°N, 96.56°WTienen — 50.81°N, 5.09°ETienen — 50.30°N, 4.12°EMaastricht — 50.83°N, 5.68°ELandana — 5.22°S, 12.14°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EWittering — 51.08°N, 1.17°WElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WClinchfield — 32.91°N, 83.36°WCalvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WRishtan — 41.65°N, 64.69°EWilliamsburg — 33.43°N, 80.10°WNanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°WScotland — 13.21°N, 59.56°WRío Baguales — 50.73°S, 72.47°WLas Flores — 50.74°S, 72.47°WHannut — 50.71°N, 5.00°EMarnes de Gan — 43.23°N, 0.40°W

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The named rock units Carcharias hopei has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Carcharias hopei and its relatives

Eocene

Where Carcharias hopei and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

993 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Carcharias hopei, 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

31 references

Each of the 64 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. 19 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

Media content1

Picture of Carcharias hopei

Source
GBIF
Credit
bdhimes
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Carcharias hopei 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1843)