Cretoxyrhinidae

Cretoxyrhinidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
LamniformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At least 47 million years on record.

The record covers at least 119.57 Mya to 72.2 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 121.4 Mya to 66 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 15 of 220 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 205 of 220 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 220 occurrences123–121 Mya — about 1 occurrence121–119 Mya — about 2 occurrences119–117 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences117–115 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences115–113 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences113–111 Mya — about 2 occurrences111–109 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences109–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–105 Mya — about 2 occurrences105–103 Mya — about 3 occurrences103–101 Mya — about 3 occurrences101–99 Mya — about 13 occurrences99–98 Mya — about 22 occurrences98–96 Mya — about 22 occurrences96–94 Mya — about 22 occurrences94–92 Mya — about 27 occurrences92–90 Mya — about 27 occurrences90–88 Mya — about 13 occurrences88–86 Mya — about 12 occurrences86–84 Mya — about 19 occurrences84–82 Mya — about 8 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 3 occurrences80–78 Mya — about 3 occurrences78–76 Mya — about 3 occurrences76–74 Mya — about 3 occurrences74–73 Mya — about 3 occurrences73–71 Mya — about 2 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 1 occurrence69–67 Mya — about 1 occurrence67–65 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences119.57 Mya72.2 Mya123 Mya65 Mya

220 occurrences of Cretoxyrhinidae 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

220 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

54 formations

Greenhorn Limestone — 37.22°N, 103.60°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.00°N, 98.92°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.58°N, 98.45°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.69°N, 103.94°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.34°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.74°N, 97.65°WGreenhorn Limestone — 42.64°N, 96.53°WGreenhorn Limestone — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.46°N, 103.05°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.92°N, 98.71°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.87°N, 98.51°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.87°N, 98.56°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°WGreenhorn Limestone — 34.98°N, 103.41°WGreenhorn Limestone — 38.92°N, 98.90°WGreenhorn Limestone — 37.65°N, 103.93°WGreenhorn Limestone — 39.81°N, 97.38°WGreenhorn — 43.29°N, 103.80°WGreenhorn — 44.72°N, 103.67°WGreenhorn — 44.76°N, 103.75°WGreenhorn — 43.29°N, 103.42°WNiobrara — 38.68°N, 100.28°WNiobrara — 38.72°N, 100.70°WNiobrara — 39.00°N, 100.50°WNiobrara — 39.12°N, 99.30°WNiobrara — 39.09°N, 99.24°WNiobrara — 40.71°N, 105.17°WNiobrara — 38.75°N, 100.25°WNiobrara — 38.80°N, 100.19°WNiobrara — 38.76°N, 100.82°WNiobrara — 39.09°N, 99.85°WNiobrara — 38.67°N, 100.37°WMancos Shale — 36.39°N, 109.85°WMancos Shale — 36.14°N, 109.82°WMancos Shale — 36.51°N, 110.10°WMancos Shale — 35.73°N, 110.82°WMancos Shale — 35.87°N, 110.75°WMancos Shale — 36.18°N, 109.88°WMancos Shale — 36.33°N, 109.82°WScaglia Rossa — 45.65°N, 10.94°EScaglia Rossa — 45.55°N, 10.87°EScaglia Rossa — 46.28°N, 12.30°EScaglia Rossa — 45.94°N, 11.72°EScaglia Rossa — 45.60°N, 11.20°EScaglia Rossa — 45.62°N, 11.28°EScaglia Rossa — 45.60°N, 10.82°ECarlile Shale — 39.08°N, 99.24°WCarlile Shale — 39.78°N, 98.15°WCarlile Shale — 42.72°N, 96.95°WCarlile Shale — 38.72°N, 99.32°WCarlile Shale — 47.01°N, 107.87°WCarlile Shale — 43.25°N, 103.92°WMelovatka — 50.88°N, 44.74°EMelovatka — 51.55°N, 45.99°EMelovatka — 51.50°N, 44.60°EMelovatka — 51.63°N, 43.29°EMenuha — 30.50°N, 34.65°EMenuha — 30.56°N, 34.65°EMenuha — 30.58°N, 34.90°EEagle Ford — 31.53°N, 97.21°WEagle Ford — 32.76°N, 96.90°WEagle Ford — 30.26°N, 97.76°WBurim — 49.72°N, 31.51°ELezennes Chalk — 50.61°N, 3.12°EHesseltal — 52.08°N, 8.34°EAshville — 53.48°N, 102.24°WKaskapau — 55.71°N, 117.60°WGraneros Shale — 40.01°N, 97.17°WGraneros Shale — 38.93°N, 98.91°WSpeeton Clay — 54.15°N, 0.17°WScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.28°N, 11.65°EScaglia Variegata Alpina — 45.65°N, 11.31°EDakota — 40.06°N, 97.34°WDakota — 38.92°N, 98.50°WTrivières Chalk — 50.47°N, 4.03°ETrivières Chalk — 50.47°N, 4.09°EEutaw — 32.77°N, 87.87°WEutaw — 33.49°N, 88.39°WAshizawa — 37.20°N, 140.95°EMutsuo — 34.35°N, 135.33°EMutsuo — 34.37°N, 135.41°EWadi Umm Ghudran — 31.18°N, 35.70°EBelle Fourche — 53.21°N, 103.52°W

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The named rock units Cretoxyrhinidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 30 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 60 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Cretoxyrhinidae and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

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

Found in the same rock

775 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 210 sites for Cretoxyrhinidae, 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

102 references

Each of the 220 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. 90 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 content1

Picture of Cretoxyrhinidae

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Cretoxyrhinidae 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 itLamniformes through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Glikman 1958