Cretomanta canadensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CretomantaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At least 4.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 93.9 Mya to 89.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 100.5 Mya to 85.7 Mya.
28 occurrences of Cretomanta canadensis 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
28 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
8 formations
- Greenhorn Limestone Formation · Colorado Group9
- Greenhorn Formation5
- Carlile Shale Formation · Colorado Group4
- Graneros Shale Formation2
- Dakota Formation2
- Niobrara Formation · Colorado Group1
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The named rock units Cretomanta canadensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cretomanta canadensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cretomanta canadensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
156 taxa- Cretoxyrhina mantelli20 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata18 sites
- Squalicorax curvatus17 sites
- Microcarcharias saskatchewanensis16 sites
- Rhinobatos incertus15 sites
- Enchodus gladiolus14 sites
- Enchodus shumardi14 sites
- Pachyrhizodus minimus14 sites
- Ptychodus anonymus13 sites
- Squalicorax13 sites
- Cenocarcharias tenuiplicatus12 sites
- Squalicorax falcatus12 sites
- Plethodidae11 sites
- Protosphyraena11 sites
- Haimirichia amonensis10 sites
- Caturidae9 sites
- Cretodus semiplicatus8 sites
- Ptychodus occidentalis8 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis7 sites
- Ptychodus decurrens7 sites
- Xiphactinus audax7 sites
- Albulidae6 sites
- Aspidorhynchidae6 sites
- Chiloscyllium greeni6 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 28 sites for Cretomanta canadensis, 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
20 references- Cretaceous elasmobranchs of the Greenhorn Formation (Middle Cenomanian-Middle Turonian), western South Dakota5
- Fossil fishes from the basal Greenhorn Limestone (Upper Cretaceous, Late Cenomanian) in Russell County, Kansas4
- Additions aux faunes de sélaciens du Crétacé du Texas (Albien supérieur-Campanien)2
- Late Cretaceous marine vertebrates from the upper half of the Pfeifer Shale Member of the Greenhorn Limestone in central Kansas, USA, and comments on the geologically oldest mosasaur remains in Kansas1
- A new marine vertebrate assemblage from the Upper Cretaceous Dakota Formation in Nebraska, USA, and its paleoecology and taphonomy1
- Fossil vertebrates from the middle of the Graneros Shale (Upper Cretaceous: Middle Cenomanian), Russell County, Kansas, USA1
- 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 Nebraska1
- Fossil marine vertebrates from the Codell Sandstone Member (middle Turonian) of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in Jewell County, Kansas, USA1
- Fossil marine vertebrates from the Blue Hill Shale Member (Middle Turonian) of the Upper Cretaceous Carlile Shale in northeastern Nebraska1
- 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
- Marine vertebrates from the Hartland Shale (Upper Cretaceous: Upper Cenomanian) in southeastern Colorado, USA1
Each of the 28 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. 8 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.
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No picture of Cretomanta canadensis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Wikipedia and 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 canadensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretomanta canadensis 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. Case et al. 1990