Cretoxyrhina vraconensis
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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 13 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 106.3 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
8 occurrences of Cretoxyrhina vraconensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
8 occurrencesThese 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
3 formations
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The named rock units Cretoxyrhina vraconensis 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.
Cretoxyrhina vraconensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Cretoxyrhina vraconensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
56 taxa- Paraorthacodus recurvus4 sites
- Protolamna sokolovi4 sites
- Squatina (Cretascyllium) cranei4 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis3 sites
- Archaeolamna striata3 sites
- Eostriatolamia subulata3 sites
- Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens3 sites
- Squalicorax3 sites
- Synechodus subulatus3 sites
- Cederstroemia siverssoni2 sites
- Cretalamna2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Eostriatolamia striatula2 sites
- Heterodontus2 sites
- Heterodontus canaliculatus2 sites
- Heterodontus upnikensis2 sites
- Paraisurus macrorhizus2 sites
- Polyacrodus illingworthi2 sites
- Squalicorax baharijensis2 sites
- Anomotodon1 site
- Carcharias1 site
- Carchariidae1 site
- cf. Opthalmosaurinae indet.1 site
- Cretodus1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Cretoxyrhina vraconensis, 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
5 references- Elasmobranch (Chondrichthyes) assemblages from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Ukraine3
- Mid-Cretaceous Cretoxyrhina (Elasmobranchii) from Mangyshlak, Kazakhstan and Texas, USA2
- O stratigraficheskom znachenii elasmobrankhii (Chondrichthyes, Elasmobranchii) v senomane pravoberezhnogo Povolzh'ya1
- Late late Albian (Early Cretaceous) shark teeth from Annopol, Poland1
- Evoluyutsiya zubnykh sistem akul roda Pseudoisurus Gluckman, 1957 - krupneishikh melovykh pelagicheskikh akul evrazii1
Each of the 8 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. 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 Cretoxyrhina vraconensis 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 vraconensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Cretoxyrhina vraconensis 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 Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Zhelezko 2000)