Foumtizia

Foumtizia

Madsen, Mogens · CC BY 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
ScyliorhinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 23 million years on record.

The record covers at least 61.66 Mya to 37.71 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 33.9 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 1 of 51 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 16 of 51 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 34 of 51 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 51 occurrences73–72 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences72–70 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences70–69 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences69–68 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences66–65 Mya — about 2 occurrences65–64 Mya — about 3 occurrences64–62 Mya — about 3 occurrences62–61 Mya — about 2 occurrences61–60 Mya — about 1 occurrence60–58 Mya — about 1 occurrence58–57 Mya — about 2 occurrences57–56 Mya — about 2 occurrences56–54 Mya — about 2 occurrences54–53 Mya — about 2 occurrences53–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–50 Mya — about 2 occurrences50–49 Mya — about 2 occurrences49–48 Mya — about 2 occurrences48–46 Mya — about 3 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 3 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 3 occurrences44–42 Mya — about 3 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 3 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–38 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1.0 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences61.66 Mya37.71 Mya73 Mya33.1 Mya

51 occurrences of Foumtizia on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

51 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

Marnes de Donzacq — 43.75°N, 0.84°WMatam — 15.32°N, 13.03°WCouche II — 32.87°N, 6.57°WCouche II — 32.85°N, 6.63°WCouche II — 32.81°N, 6.83°WCouche II — 32.65°N, 6.68°WKortrijk Clay — 50.80°N, 3.22°ESelsey — 50.80°N, 1.21°WTavda — 55.34°N, 65.35°ETavda — 56.70°N, 63.15°EDongen — 52.73°N, 6.30°EDongen — 53.16°N, 6.22°EElmore — 50.80°N, 1.20°WDry Branch — 33.62°N, 81.68°WDry Branch — 33.50°N, 84.74°WMarnes de Miretrain — 43.69°N, 1.13°WLondon Clay — 51.64°N, 0.78°EMaldegem — 50.98°N, 4.32°ELillebælt Clay — 55.60°N, 9.80°E

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The named rock units Foumtizia 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.

Foumtizia and its relatives

Eocene

Where Foumtizia and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

418 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 43 sites for Foumtizia, 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

15 references

Each of the 51 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. 3 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 Foumtizia

Source
GBIF
Credit
Madsen, Mogens
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Foumtizia 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 itScyliorhinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noubhani and Cappetta 1997