Heterodontus laevis
No picture of Heterodontus laevis 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 Heterodontus laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterodontusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Chondrichthyes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Chondrichthyes
Time the record covers
At most 11 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 100.5 Mya and 89.8 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Heterodontus laevis 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
3 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.
Heterodontus laevis and its relatives
Late CretaceousWhere Heterodontus laevis and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
53 taxa- Adnetoscyllium2 sites
- Cederstroemia siverssoni2 sites
- Dallasiella willistoni2 sites
- Protolamna2 sites
- Pseudoscapanorhynchus compressidens2 sites
- Scapanorhynchus minimus2 sites
- Squatirhina draytoni2 sites
- Annea1 site
- Anomotodon principalis1 site
- Archaeolamna kopingensis1 site
- Cantioscyllium decipiens1 site
- Carcharias latus1 site
- Chiloscyllium1 site
- Chiloscyllium vulloi1 site
- Cretascyliorhinus destombesi1 site
- Cretoxyrhina denticulata1 site
- Dasyatoidea1 site
- Dwardius woodwardi1 site
- Gladioserratus aptiensis1 site
- Heterodontus canaliculatus1 site
- Micropristis1 site
- Orectolobiformes1 site
- Paranomotodon angustidens1 site
- Pararhincodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Heterodontus laevis, 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
1 referenceEach of the 3 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 doi.org. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Heterodontus laevis 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 Heterodontus laevis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterodontus laevis 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.
Keep going
What may have been alongside itHeterodontus through timeFormations of the Late CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Guinot et al. 2013