Heterotorpedo brahimi
No picture of Heterotorpedo brahimi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none. GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heterotorpedo brahimi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- HeterotorpedoPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Life habit
- nektobenthicPBDB, for Myliobatiformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Myliobatiformes
Time the record covers
At most 5.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 61.66 Mya and 56 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
5 occurrences of Heterotorpedo brahimi on record, most of them in the Paleocene. 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
5 occurrences- Paleocene100%
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
1 formation
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The named rock units Heterotorpedo brahimi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.
Heterotorpedo brahimi and its relatives
PaleoceneWhere Heterotorpedo brahimi and its relatives were recorded in the Paleocene.
Found in the same rock
64 taxa- Ginglymostoma khouribgaense5 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) subulidens5 sites
- Scyliorhinus entomodon5 sites
- Scyliorhinus ptychtus5 sites
- Abdounia africana4 sites
- Archaeomanta priemi4 sites
- Casieria maghrebiana4 sites
- Foumtizia abdouni4 sites
- Gymnura delpiti4 sites
- Microscyliorhinus simplex4 sites
- Palaeogaleus larachei4 sites
- Triakis antunesi4 sites
- Coupatezia larivei3 sites
- Dasyatoidea3 sites
- Delpitoscyllium africanum3 sites
- Galeorhinus mesetaensis3 sites
- Heterobatis talbaouii3 sites
- Hologinglymostoma jaegeri3 sites
- Khouribgaleus gomphorhiza3 sites
- Metlaouia delpiti3 sites
- Palaeorhincodon daouii3 sites
- Premontreia (Oxyscyllium) peypouqueti3 sites
- Scyliorhinus sulcidens3 sites
- Dasyatis ponsi2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 5 sites for Heterotorpedo brahimi, 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
2 references- Les Orectolobiformes, Carcharhiniformes et Myliobatiformes (Elasmobranchii, Neoselachii) des bassins à phosphate du Maroc (Maastrichtien-Lutétien basal). Systématique, biostratigraphie, évolution et dynamique des faunes4
- A new Palaeogene elasmobranch fauna (Tebessa region, eastern Algeria) and the importance of Algerian-Tunisian phosphates for the North African fossil record1
Each of the 5 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
Media content0
No picture of Heterotorpedo brahimi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata, iDigBio and Smithsonian Open Access were searched and had none.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Heterotorpedo brahimi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itHeterotorpedo through timeFormations of the PaleoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Noubhani and Cappetta 1997