Chiloscyllium serralheiroi

Chiloscyllium serralheiroi

Tsu Soo Tan · CC BY-NC 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
ChiloscylliumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At most 4.4 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 11.63 Mya and 7.246 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Miocene — about 1 of 1 occurrenceMiocene12–12 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences11–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10–10.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences10.0–9.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.8–9.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.6–9.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.4–9.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.3–9.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences9.1–8.9 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.9–8.7 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.7–8.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.5–8.4 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.4–8.2 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.2–8.0 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences8.0–7.8 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.8–7.6 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.6–7.5 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.5–7.3 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences7.3–7.1 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences12.1 Mya6.7 Mya

1 occurrence of Chiloscyllium serralheiroi on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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

1 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

1 formation

Cacela — 37.08°N, 8.23°W

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The named rock units Chiloscyllium serralheiroi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Chiloscyllium serralheiroi and its relatives

Miocene

Where Chiloscyllium serralheiroi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

31 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Chiloscyllium serralheiroi, 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

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Chiloscyllium serralheiroi

Source
GBIF
Credit
Tsu Soo Tan
Licence
CC BY-NC 4.0
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

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

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What may have been alongside itChiloscyllium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Landau et al. 2025