Ganopristis leptodon
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- GanopristisPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 18 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 83.6 Mya and 66 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
22 occurrences of Ganopristis leptodon on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. 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
22 occurrences- Late Cretaceous100%
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
7 formations
- Maastricht Formation5
- Mishash Formation2
- Maastricht Formation2
- Vitoria Formation1
- Valdenoceda Formation1
- Torme Formation1
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The named rock units Ganopristis leptodon has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 9 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Ganopristis leptodon and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Ganopristis leptodon and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
162 taxa- Squalicorax pristodontus14 sites
- Rhombodus binkhorsti10 sites
- Serratolamna serrata7 sites
- Squalicorax bassanii7 sites
- Dalpiazia stromeri6 sites
- Prognathodon currii6 sites
- Rhinobatos6 sites
- Bothremydidae5 sites
- Chelonioidea5 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata5 sites
- Cretalamna maroccana5 sites
- Ctenopristis nougareti5 sites
- Eremiasaurus heterodontus5 sites
- Halisaurus arambourgi5 sites
- Hexanchus microdon5 sites
- Plioplatecarpinae5 sites
- Prognathodon5 sites
- Pseudocorax affinis5 sites
- Stratodus apicalis5 sites
- Anomotodon plicatus4 sites
- Cretomanta4 sites
- Elasmosauridae4 sites
- Enchodus4 sites
- Globidens phosphaticus4 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 22 sites for Ganopristis leptodon, 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
9 references- Marine vertebrate faunas from the Maastrichtian phosphates of Benguérir (Ganntour Basin, Morocco): Biostratigraphy, palaeobiogeography and palaeoecology5
- Contributions à l'étude des poissons fossiles de la Belgique. XIII. Présence de Ganopristinés dans la Glauconie de Lonzée et le Tuffeau de Maestricht5
- Les sélaciens des terrains néocrétacés and paléocènes de Belgique and des contrées limitrophes. Eléments d'une biostratigraphie intercontinentale4
- Senonian elasmobranch teeth from Israel. Biostratigraphic and paleoenvironmental implications3
- Upper Maastrichtian shallow marine environments and neoselachian assemblages in North Iberian palaeomargin (Castilian Ramp, Spain)1
- Upper Maastrichtian selachians from the Condado de Treviño (Basque-Cantabrian Region, Iberian Peninsula)1
- Découverte de nouvelles faunes de sélaciens (Neoselachii) dans les phosphates maastrichtiens de la Mer Rouge, Egypte1
- The fossil vertebrates from the Lano (Basque Country, Spain); new evidence on the composition and affinities of the Late Cretaceous continental faunas of Europe1
- Eine Fischfauna aus der oberen Kreide von Aachen und neuere Fund von Fischresten aus dem Maestricht des angrenzenden belgisch-holländischen Raumes1
Each of the 22 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
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No picture of Ganopristis leptodon 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 Ganopristis leptodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Ganopristis leptodon 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 itGanopristis through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Arambourg 1935)