Hemigaleidae

Hemigaleidae

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarcharhiniformesPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At least 201 million years on record.

The record covers at least 201.4 Mya to 129 ka. No occurrence read is dated outside 205.7 Mya to 11.7 ka.

Late Triassic — about 1 of 389 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 0 of 389 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 389 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 0 of 389 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 0 of 389 occurrencesLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 389 occurrencesPaleocene — about 0 of 389 occurrencesEocene — about 75 of 389 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 16 of 389 occurrencesMiocene — about 272 of 389 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 19 of 389 occurrencesPleistocene — about 5 of 389 occurrences210–203 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences203–196 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences63–56 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences56–49 Mya — about 4 occurrences49–42 Mya — about 5 occurrences42–35 Mya — about 51 occurrences35–28 Mya — about 23 occurrences28–21 Mya — about 25 occurrences21–14 Mya — about 110 occurrences14–7.0 Mya — about 126 occurrences7.0–0 Mya — about 45 occurrences201.4 Mya129 ka210 Mya0 Mya

389 occurrences of Hemigaleidae on record, most of them in the Miocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group. 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

389 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

131 formations

Calvert — 38.54°N, 76.73°WCalvert — 37.93°N, 77.51°WCalvert — 38.55°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.64°N, 76.52°WCalvert — 38.67°N, 76.53°WCalvert — 38.40°N, 76.50°WCalvert — 38.17°N, 76.81°WCalvert — 37.54°N, 77.44°WCalvert — 39.20°N, 75.60°WGehannam — 29.36°N, 30.16°EGehannam — 29.31°N, 30.17°EGehannam — 29.33°N, 30.08°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EBirket Qarun — 29.28°N, 30.04°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.06°EBirket Qarun — 29.50°N, 30.56°EBirket Qarun — 29.45°N, 30.36°ELagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.28°WLagos-Portimão — 37.12°N, 8.54°WLagos-Portimão — 37.08°N, 8.67°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.80°WGatun — 9.35°N, 79.84°WGatun — 9.34°N, 79.88°WPirabas — 1.18°S, 47.22°WPirabas — 0.48°S, 48.17°WPirabas — 1.05°S, 47.16°WPirabas — 0.63°S, 47.54°WPirabas — 0.60°S, 47.31°WPirabas — 0.73°S, 47.49°WPirabas — 0.64°S, 47.38°WUrumaco — 11.25°N, 70.27°WUrumaco — 11.24°N, 70.25°WChucunaque — 9.13°N, 78.75°WChucunaque — 9.15°N, 78.78°WCantaure — 11.97°N, 70.02°WCantaure — 11.94°N, 70.02°WYazoo — 31.66°N, 92.90°WYazoo — 31.82°N, 92.33°WYazoo — 31.71°N, 87.96°WYazoo — 31.93°N, 91.94°WYazoo — 31.63°N, 88.31°WQasr el-Sagha — 29.60°N, 30.67°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.29°N, 29.99°EChilcatay — 14.77°S, 75.39°WChilcatay — 14.62°S, 75.64°WSamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WLuanda — 8.76°S, 13.30°ECulebra — 9.08°N, 79.68°WCulebra — 9.57°N, 79.65°WCulebra — 9.54°N, 79.66°WCulebra — 9.42°N, 79.65°WStatenville — 30.40°N, 83.00°WStatenville — 30.23°N, 82.63°WHrušky — 48.81°N, 16.63°EUpper Marine Molasse — 48.56°N, 10.06°EYsidro — 27.70°N, 114.90°WYsidro — 26.23°N, 112.50°WParana — 31.38°S, 60.23°WParana — 31.71°S, 60.55°WParana — 32.08°S, 60.49°WPungo River — 35.40°N, 76.80°WYorktown — 35.36°N, 76.82°WChoptank — 38.39°N, 76.57°WChoptank — 38.38°N, 76.50°WChoptank — 38.50°N, 76.51°WGlobigerina Limestone — 36.08°N, 14.24°EGlobigerina Limestone — 35.90°N, 14.33°E

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The named rock units Hemigaleidae has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 107 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 86 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hemigaleidae and its relatives

Miocene

Where Hemigaleidae and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

3,191 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 280 sites for Hemigaleidae, and this reads 240 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

173 references

Each of the 389 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. 161 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 Hemigaleidae

Credit
CSIRO National Fish Collection
Licence
CC BY 3.0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Hemigaleidae 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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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hasse 1879