Deania

Deania is a genus of long-snouted, deepwater dogfish sharks in the family Centrophoridae.

Deania

A. R. Mc Culloch · Public Domain · via Wikidata/Commons. 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
CentrophoridaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes

Time the record covers

At least 68 million years on record.

The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 3.6 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 2.58 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 30 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 30 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 30 occurrencesMiocene — about 23 of 30 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 2 of 30 occurrencesPleistocene — about 0 of 30 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences82–80 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences80–77 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences46–43 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences43–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–37 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences37–35 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences35–32 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences23–21 Mya — about 1 occurrence21–18 Mya — about 4 occurrences18–15 Mya — about 9 occurrences15–12 Mya — about 8 occurrences12–9.4 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences9.4–6.6 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences6.6–3.8 Mya — about 1 occurrence3.8–960 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence72.2 Mya3.6 Mya85 Mya960 ka

30 occurrences of Deania on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

30 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

13 formations

Argille Azzurre — 44.72°N, 10.08°EArgille Azzurre — 44.24°N, 11.75°ENeuhofen — 48.50°N, 14.28°EMakino — 34.75°N, 136.27°EAchen — 47.88°N, 12.27°EKuma — 45.10°N, 34.63°ESign — 18.48°N, 77.58°WPeresheek Mountain — 58.58°N, 163.60°EMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WHigashibessho — 36.60°N, 137.07°EByala — 42.88°N, 27.90°EEbelsberg — 48.24°N, 13.99°EYokoo — 36.42°N, 138.30°ECubagua — 10.57°N, 64.24°W

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The named rock units Deania has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Deania and its relatives

Miocene

Where Deania and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

246 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 30 sites for Deania, 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

18 references

Each of the 30 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. 6 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 Deania

Credit
A. R. Mc Culloch
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Deania 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.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itCentrophoridae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Jordan and Snyder 1902