Hexanchus griseus

Hexanchus griseus

Uncredited · via Wikidata/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Also called
bluntnose sixgill sharkPBDB
Sits inside
HexanchusPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Hexanchiformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Hexanchiformes

Time the record covers

At least 14 million years on record.

The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 1.8 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 20.45 Mya to 774 ka.

Miocene — about 7 of 18 occurrencesMiocenePliocene — about 9 of 18 occurrencesPliocenePleistocene — about 2 of 18 occurrencesPleistocene21–20 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences20–20 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences20–19 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences19–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–18 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences18–17 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences17–16 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences16–15 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences14–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–13 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences13–12 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences12–11 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences11–11 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences11–9.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.9–9.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences9.2–8.5 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences8.5–7.9 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.9–7.2 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences7.2–6.5 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences6.5–5.8 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences5.8–5.1 Mya — about 1 occurrence5.1–4.4 Mya — about 2 occurrences4.4–3.7 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.7–3.0 Mya — about 2 occurrences3.0–2.3 Mya — about 1 occurrence2.3–1.7 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences1.7–963 ka Mya — about 1 occurrence963 ka–274 ka Mya — about 0.3 occurrences15.98 Mya1.8 Mya20.9 Mya274 ka

18 occurrences of Hexanchus griseus on record, most of them in the Pliocene. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. 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

18 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

13 formations

Horcón — 32.70°S, 71.46°WKattendijk — 51.26°N, 4.27°EBahía Inglesa — 27.13°S, 70.83°WTirabuzón — 27.37°N, 112.29°WBlue Clay — 35.93°N, 14.34°EGlobigerina Limestone — 35.90°N, 14.33°EPuerta del Diablo — 40.30°S, 65.25°WBreda — 51.47°N, 5.80°EWilson Grove — 38.34°N, 122.84°WCacela — 37.08°N, 8.23°WOosterhout — 51.79°N, 5.70°EArgille Azzurre — 43.31°N, 11.49°EPietra Leccese — 40.33°N, 18.19°E

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The named rock units Hexanchus griseus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 3 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Hexanchus griseus and its relatives

Pliocene

Where Hexanchus griseus and its relatives were recorded in the Pliocene.

Found in the same rock

309 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 18 sites for Hexanchus griseus, 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

16 references

Each of the 18 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. 4 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 content2

Picture of Hexanchus griseus

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Licence
CC Attribution-NonCommercial
Commercial use
the licence does not allow it

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 itHexanchus through timeFormations of the PlioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Bonaterre 1788)