Carcharias tingitana
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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 6.7 million years on record.
The record covers at least 66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 56 Mya.
7 occurrences of Carcharias tingitana 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
7 occurrences- Late Cretaceous14%
- Paleocene86%
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
2 formations
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The named rock units Carcharias tingitana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Carcharias tingitana and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Carcharias tingitana and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Striatolamia whitei5 sites
- Cretalamna2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Hypolophodon sylvestris2 sites
- Palaeogaleus brivesi2 sites
- Palaeohypotodus rutoti2 sites
- Palaeohypotodus speyeri2 sites
- Anomotodon1 site
- Brachysphingus gibbosus1 site
- Brachysphingus mammilatus1 site
- Brachysphingus sinuatus1 site
- Centrophorus1 site
- Cretolamna lata1 site
- Cretolamna pachyrhiza1 site
- Cypraeidae1 site
- Dasyatidae1 site
- Deltocyathus whitei1 site
- Eocypraea1 site
- Flabellum1 site
- Flabellum cuneiforme1 site
- Ganopristis leptodon1 site
- Ginglymostoma subafricanum1 site
- Glycymerita major1 site
- Glyptoactis (Claibornicardia) keenae1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 7 sites for Carcharias tingitana, 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
3 references- Les sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés and paléocènes de Belgique and des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale4
- Ecological impact of the end-Cretaceous extinction on lamniform sharks2
- Preliminary note on the Paleocene elasmobranchs of the Lodo Formation, Fresno County, California1
Each of the 7 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 Carcharias tingitana was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 Carcharias tingitana, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Carcharias tingitana 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. (Arambourg 1952)