Cretalamna appendiculata

Cretalamna appendiculata

Ewell, K. · 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
CretalamnaPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 147 million years on record.

The record covers at least 161.5 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 165.3 Mya to 11.63 Mya.

Middle Jurassic — about 1 of 269 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 269 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 11 of 269 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 220 of 269 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 26 of 269 occurrencesEocene — about 7 of 269 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 269 occurrencesMiocene — about 3 of 269 occurrencesMiocene168–163 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences163–158 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences115–110 Mya — about 3 occurrences110–104 Mya — about 4 occurrences104–99 Mya — about 16 occurrences99–94 Mya — about 43 occurrences94–88 Mya — about 45 occurrences88–83 Mya — about 41 occurrences83–78 Mya — about 27 occurrences78–72 Mya — about 27 occurrences72–67 Mya — about 22 occurrences67–62 Mya — about 15 occurrences62–57 Mya — about 15 occurrences57–51 Mya — about 2 occurrences51–46 Mya — about 2 occurrences46–41 Mya — about 1 occurrence41–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–30 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences25–19 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences19–14 Mya — about 2 occurrences14–8.6 Mya — about 1 occurrence161.5 Mya13.82 Mya168 Mya9 Mya

269 occurrences of Cretalamna appendiculata 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

269 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

84 formations

Landana — 5.22°S, 12.14°ECarlile Shale — 39.89°N, 98.03°WCarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 38.72°N, 99.32°WCarlile Shale — 39.04°N, 99.07°WCarlile Shale — 47.01°N, 107.87°WCarlile Shale — 43.25°N, 103.92°WCarlile Shale — 44.09°N, 104.68°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.00°N, 98.92°WGreenhorn Limestone — 44.65°N, 103.58°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.87°N, 98.51°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.94°N, 98.80°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.04°N, 98.99°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.74°N, 99.04°WMancos Shale — 39.00°N, 110.35°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.51°N, 110.10°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 36.33°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.00°N, 111.00°WMenuha — 30.95°N, 35.00°EMenuha — 30.50°N, 34.65°EMenuha — 30.56°N, 34.65°EMenuha — 30.58°N, 34.90°EGreenhorn — 43.29°N, 103.80°WGreenhorn — 44.72°N, 103.67°WGreenhorn — 44.76°N, 103.75°WGreenhorn — 43.29°N, 103.42°WCarlile — 44.75°N, 103.85°WCarlile — 43.64°N, 104.12°WCarlile — 43.91°N, 104.35°WCarlile — 43.96°N, 104.44°WCarlile — 44.14°N, 104.71°WCarlile — 43.40°N, 103.36°WBlack Creek — 34.68°N, 78.23°WBlack Creek — 34.58°N, 78.27°WBlack Creek — 35.23°N, 77.79°WBlack Creek — 35.22°N, 77.68°WNiobrara — 39.09°N, 99.24°WNiobrara — 39.08°N, 99.31°WNiobrara — 40.71°N, 105.17°WNiobrara — 38.80°N, 100.19°WEutaw — 32.38°N, 84.93°WEutaw — 33.52°N, 88.40°WEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WAmman — 32.24°N, 36.25°EAmman — 29.92°N, 36.17°EAmman — 31.46°N, 35.78°EAmman — 32.03°N, 35.97°EMarshalltown — 40.30°N, 74.30°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WMooreville Chalk — 31.39°N, 87.79°WMooreville Chalk — 32.91°N, 88.08°WMooreville Chalk — 32.76°N, 88.02°WMount Laurel — 40.38°N, 74.21°WMount Laurel — 39.56°N, 75.63°WMerchantville — 39.54°N, 75.73°WMerchantville — 39.95°N, 74.99°WPeedee — 34.48°N, 78.41°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WHinoshima — 32.40°N, 130.40°EHornerstown — 39.76°N, 75.13°WHornerstown — 40.10°N, 73.00°WVitoria — 42.66°N, 2.63°WVitoria — 42.81°N, 2.69°WSevern — 38.91°N, 76.85°WSevern — 38.96°N, 76.71°WJiesia — 55.06°N, 24.37°ESan Francisquito — 34.62°N, 118.62°WDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°WDakota — 38.92°N, 98.50°W

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The named rock units Cretalamna appendiculata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 60 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 89 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cretalamna appendiculata and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cretalamna appendiculata and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,691 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 268 sites for Cretalamna appendiculata, and this reads 240 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

135 references

Each of the 269 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. 123 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 content2

Picture of Cretalamna appendiculata

Source
GBIF
Credit
Ewell, K.
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
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Laser scan

Licence
In Copyright
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Specimen
Cretalamna appendiculata · ypm:vp:YPM vp 058706

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 1835)