Cretoxyrhina agassizensis
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- CretoxyrhinaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Cretoxyrhina agassizensis 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
5 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
4 formations
- Ashville Formation1
- Carlile Shale Formation · Colorado Group1
- Greenhorn Limestone Formation1
- Haycock Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Cretoxyrhina agassizensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Cretoxyrhina agassizensis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Cretoxyrhina agassizensis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
73 taxa- Archaeolamna kopingensis4 sites
- Carcharias3 sites
- Enchodus shumardi3 sites
- Squalicorax curvatus3 sites
- Caturidae2 sites
- Coniasaurus crassidens2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Cretomanta canadensis2 sites
- Cretoxyrhina mantelli2 sites
- Elopopsis2 sites
- Enchodus gladiolus2 sites
- Ichthyodectes ctenodon2 sites
- Johnlongia allocotodon2 sites
- Micropycnodon2 sites
- Pachyrhizodus minimus2 sites
- Plethodidae2 sites
- Protosphyraena2 sites
- Pycnodontidae2 sites
- Rhinobatos incertus2 sites
- Squalicorax mutabilis2 sites
- Squalicorax pawpawensis2 sites
- Acanthomorphata1 site
- Albulidae1 site
- Anomotodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Cretoxyrhina agassizensis, 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
4 references- Vertebral morphology, dentition, age, growth, and ecology of the large lamniform shark Cardabiodon ricki2
- Late Cretaceous marine vertebrate fauna from the Fairport Chalk Member of the Carlile Shale in southern Ellis County, Kansas, U.S.A.1
- A new Late Cretaceous marine vertebrate assemblage from the Lincoln Limestone Member of the Greenhorn Limestone in southeastern Colorado1
- Chondrichthyans from a Cenomanian (Late Cretaceous) bonebed, Saskatchewan, Canada1
Each of the 5 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. Each entry links to doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Cretoxyrhina agassizensis 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 Cretoxyrhina agassizensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretoxyrhina agassizensis 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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What may have been alongside itCretoxyrhina through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Underwood and Cumbaa 2010)