Cretomanta

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AquilolamnidaePBDB
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.

Early Cretaceous — about 0 of 32 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 32 of 32 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 32 occurrences101–100 Mya — about 1 occurrence100–99 Mya — about 3 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 3 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 3 occurrences96–95 Mya — about 3 occurrences95–94 Mya — about 3 occurrences94–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–92 Mya — about 3 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 3 occurrences90–89 Mya — about 2 occurrences89–88 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences88–87 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences87–86 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences72–71 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences71–70 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences68–67 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences67–65 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences93.9 Mya72.2 Mya101.2 Mya65.3 Mya

32 occurrences of Cretomanta 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

32 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

8 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.69°N, 103.94°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.87°N, 98.51°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.94°N, 98.80°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.78°N, 98.96°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.74°N, 99.04°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.92°N, 98.90°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.65°N, 103.93°WGreenhorn — 43.29°N, 103.80°WGreenhorn — 44.72°N, 103.67°WGreenhorn — 44.76°N, 103.75°WGreenhorn — 43.29°N, 103.42°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 42.74°N, 97.03°WCarlile Shale — 47.01°N, 107.87°WCarlile Shale — 43.25°N, 103.92°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°WDakota — 38.92°N, 98.50°WNiobrara — 53.17°N, 103.50°WAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WBelle Fourche — 43.29°N, 103.80°W

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The named rock units Cretomanta has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 7 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cretomanta and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Cretomanta and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

209 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 32 sites for Cretomanta, 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

21 references

Each of the 32 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. 9 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 content0

No picture of Cretomanta 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 Cretomanta, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Cretomanta 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itAquilolamnidae through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case et al. 1990