Delpitoscyllium africanum

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DelpitoscylliumPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Life habit
nektobenthicPBDB, for Orectolobiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Orectolobiformes

Time the record covers

At least 5.6 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 56 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 66 Mya to 48.07 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 0 of 16 occurrencesPaleocene — about 15 of 16 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 16 occurrencesEocene67–66 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–65 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences64–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–63 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences63–62 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 1 occurrence61–61 Mya — about 3 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–60 Mya — about 3 occurrences60–59 Mya — about 2 occurrences59–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–58 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences58–57 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences56–56 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences56–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–55 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences55–54 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–53 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences52–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–51 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences51–50 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–49 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences61.66 Mya56 Mya66.5 Mya47.6 Mya

16 occurrences of Delpitoscyllium africanum 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

16 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

4 formations

Landana — 5.22°S, 12.14°ECouche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WCouche II — 32.65°N, 6.68°WTuffeau de St-Omer — 50.53°N, 3.15°ENanjemoy — 38.28°N, 77.37°W

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The named rock units Delpitoscyllium africanum 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.

Delpitoscyllium africanum and its relatives

Paleocene

Where Delpitoscyllium africanum and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.

Found in the same rock

224 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Delpitoscyllium africanum, 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

4 references

Each of the 16 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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

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No picture of Delpitoscyllium africanum 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 Delpitoscyllium africanum, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Delpitoscyllium africanum was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was 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 itDelpitoscyllium through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Leriche 1927)