Dasyatis ponsi
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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 least 2.4 million years on record.
The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 59.24 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 56 Mya.
5 occurrences of Dasyatis ponsi 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
5 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
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The named rock units Dasyatis ponsi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Dasyatis ponsi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Dasyatis ponsi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
49 taxa- Foumtizia abdouni5 sites
- Abdounia africana4 sites
- Casieria maghrebiana4 sites
- Ginglymostoma khouribgaense4 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) subulidens4 sites
- Scyliorhinus entomodon4 sites
- Scyliorhinus ptychtus4 sites
- Triakis antunesi4 sites
- Galeorhinus mesetaensis3 sites
- Archaeomanta2 sites
- Archaeomanta priemi2 sites
- Coupatezia laevis2 sites
- Danogaleus gueriri2 sites
- Dasyatis hexagonalis2 sites
- Dasyatis tetraedra2 sites
- Dasyatoidea2 sites
- Delpitia reticulata2 sites
- Delpitoscyllium africanum2 sites
- Foumtizia gadaensis2 sites
- Ginglymostoma subafricanum2 sites
- Gymnura delpiti2 sites
- Gymnuridae2 sites
- Heterobatis talbaouii2 sites
- Heterotorpedo brahimi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Dasyatis ponsi, 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
2 references- Les Orectolobiformes, Carcharhiniformes et Myliobatiformes (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc (Maastrichtien-Lutétien basal). Systématique, biostratigraphie, évolution et dynamique des faunes4
- Earliest African neornithine bird: a new species of Prophaethontidae (Aves) from the Paleocene of Morocco1
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. 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 content0
No picture of Dasyatis ponsi 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 Dasyatis ponsi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dasyatis ponsi 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. Noubhani and Cappetta 1997