Heterodontus upnikensis
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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 least 3.8 million years on record.
The record covers at least 110.1 Mya to 106.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 113.2 Mya to 100.5 Mya.
8 occurrences of Heterodontus upnikensis on record, most of them in the Early 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
8 occurrences- Early 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
2 formations
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The named rock units Heterodontus upnikensis has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 4 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterodontus upnikensis and its relatives
Early CretaceousWhere Heterodontus upnikensis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Squatina (Cretascyllium) cranei8 sites
- Eostriatolamia striatula7 sites
- Paraorthacodus recurvus7 sites
- Heterodontus canaliculatus6 sites
- Leptostyrax macrorhiza6 sites
- Squalicorax primaevus6 sites
- Archaeolamna kopingensis5 sites
- Orectoloboides parvulus5 sites
- Eostriatolamia subulata4 sites
- Protosqualus sigei4 sites
- Squatina muelleri4 sites
- Synechodus dubrisiensis4 sites
- Lissodus levis3 sites
- Protosqualus glickmani3 sites
- Spathobatis halteri3 sites
- Squatirhina thiesi3 sites
- Acrodus giedroyci2 sites
- Anomotodon principalis2 sites
- Archaeolamna striata2 sites
- Carcharias tenuis2 sites
- Cretalamna appendiculata2 sites
- Cretascyliorhinus destombesi2 sites
- Cretodus semiplicatus2 sites
- Cretoxyrhina vraconensis2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 8 sites for Heterodontus upnikensis, 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
3 references- Les Elasmobranches de l'Albien inferieur et moyen (Cretace inferieur) de la Marne et de la Haute-Marne (France)4
- Elasmobranch (Chondrichthyes) assemblages from the Albian (Lower Cretaceous) of Ukraine2
- On the fossil fishes of the Lithuanian Chalk. I. Selachii2
Each of the 8 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 Heterodontus upnikensis 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 upnikensis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Heterodontus upnikensis 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 itHeterodontus through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Dalinkevičius 1935)