Dasyatis crosswickense

mmissoum · CC BY-NC 4.0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DasyatisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 4.4 million years on record.
The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 66 Mya and 61.66 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.
1 occurrence of Dasyatis crosswickense on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
1 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
- Hornerstown Formation · Rancocas Group1
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The named rock units Dasyatis crosswickense has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dasyatis crosswickense and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Dasyatis crosswickense and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
14 taxa- Cretalamna appendiculata1 site
- Edaphodon mantelli1 site
- Hexanchus1 site
- Hexanchus microdon1 site
- Hypolophites hutchinsi1 site
- Hypolophodon sylvestris1 site
- Ischyodus williamsae1 site
- Palaeogaleus vincenti1 site
- Palaeohypotodus rutoti1 site
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) gilberti1 site
- Squalus minor1 site
- Sylvestrilamia teretidens1 site
- Viperecucullus kuehnei1 site
- Weltonia ancistrodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Dasyatis crosswickense, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.
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
1 referenceEach of the 1 occurrence 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
Media content1

Picture of Dasyatis crosswickense
- Source
- GBIF
- Credit
- mmissoum
- Licence
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- Commercial use
- the licence does not allow it
No 3D scan of Dasyatis crosswickense 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 itDasyatis through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case 1996