Cenocarcharias
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- OdontaspididaePBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At least 21 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 66 Mya.
34 occurrences of Cenocarcharias on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
34 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
9 formations
- Greenhorn Limestone Formation · Colorado Group9
- Greenhorn Formation4
- Fox Hills Formation3
- Graneros Shale Formation2
- Dakota Formation2
- Coleraine Formation1
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The named rock units Cenocarcharias has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 10 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cenocarcharias and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cenocarcharias and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
255 taxa- Haimirichia amonensis19 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata18 sites
- Squalicorax17 sites
- Microcarcharias saskatchewanensis16 sites
- Pseudohypolophus mcnultyi15 sites
- Squalicorax curvatus15 sites
- Cretodus semiplicatus14 sites
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli14 sites
- Protosphyraena13 sites
- Cretomanta canadensis12 sites
- Onchopristis dunklei11 sites
- Enchodus gladiolus10 sites
- Pachyrhizodus minimus10 sites
- Protolamna9 sites
- Ptychodus anonymus9 sites
- Ptychodus occidentalis9 sites
- Rhinobatos incertus9 sites
- Enchodus shumardi8 sites
- Scapanorhynchus minimus8 sites
- Archaeolamna7 sites
- Cantioscyllium7 sites
- Caturidae7 sites
- Plethodidae7 sites
- Rhinobatos7 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Cenocarcharias, 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
18 references- New sharks and rays from the Cenomanian and Turonian of Charentes, France7
- Fossil fishes from the basal Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous, Late Cenomanian) in Russell County, Kansas4
- Cretaceous elasmobranchs of the Greenhorn Formation (Middle Cenomanian-Middle Turonian), western South Dakota4
- Chondrichthyan and osteichthyan paleofaunas from the Cretaceous (Late Maastrichtian) Fox Hills Formation of North Dakota, USA: paleoecology, paleogeography, and extinction3
- A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Dakota Formation in Nebraska, USA, and its paleoecology and taphonomy2
- A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Lincoln Limestone, Comanche National Grassland, southeastern Colorado, USA, with comments on the vertebrate assemblages at or near the contact between the Graneros Shale and Greenhorn Limestone in Colorado, Kansas, and Nebraska2
- Fossil vertebrates from the middle of the Graneros Shale (Upper Cretaceous: Middle Cenomanian), Russell County, Kansas, USA1
- Fossil fishes from a lag deposit within the Upper Cretaceous Mancos Shale in New Mexico, USA, with comments on correlative Turonian-Coniacian time-transgressive lags in the Western Interior Seaway of North America1
- A new Late Cretaceous marine vertebrate assemblage from the Lincoln Limestone Member of the Greenhorn Limestone in southeastern Colorado1
- Fossil fish fauna from the uppermost Graneros Shale (Upper Cretaceous: middle Cenomanian) in southeastern Nebraska1
- Vertebrates from the middle?-late Cenomanian La Cabana Formation (Asturias, northern Spain): Palaeoenvironmental and palaeobiogeographic implications1
- Les espèces et genres de poissons Sélaciens fossiles (Crétacé, Tertiaire) créés dans le Bassin d'Aquitaine ; recensement, taxonomie1
Each of the 34 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. 6 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
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No picture of Cenocarcharias 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 Cenocarcharias, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cenocarcharias 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. Cappetta and Case 1999