Centroselachus

No picture of Centroselachus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Centroselachus itself, so it was not used. 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 Centroselachus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SomniosidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 56 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 61.66 Mya to 774 ka.

Paleocene — about 4 of 8 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesOligocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesMiocene — about 2 of 8 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 0 of 8 occurrencesPleistocene — about 2 of 8 occurrences63–61 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences61–59 Mya — about 1 occurrence59–57 Mya — about 1 occurrence57–54 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences2.1–0 Mya — about 2 occurrences56 Mya1.8 Mya63 Mya0 Mya

8 occurrences of Centroselachus on record. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

8 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

2 formations

Waipara Greensand — 43.05°S, 172.62°EWaipara Greensand — 43.12°S, 172.48°EIseyama — 36.42°N, 138.30°E

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The named rock units Centroselachus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Found in the same rock

19 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Centroselachus, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

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

Each of the 8 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 content0

No picture of Centroselachus was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Centroselachus itself, so it was not used.

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 Centroselachus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Centroselachus 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. Garman 1913