Hylaeobatis

No picture of Hylaeobatis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia and 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 Hylaeobatis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PtychodontidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes

Time the record covers

At most 108 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 201.4 Mya and 93.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Late Triassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesEarly Jurassic — about 1 of 4 occurrencesEarly JurassicMiddle Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesMiddle JurassicLate Jurassic — about 0 of 4 occurrencesLate JurassicEarly Cretaceous — about 3 of 4 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 0 of 4 occurrences204–200 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences200–196 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences196–192 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences192–189 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences189–185 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences185–181 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences181–177 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences177–174 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences174–170 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences170–166 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences166–163 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences163–159 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences159–155 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences155–151 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences151–148 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences148–144 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences144–140 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences140–136 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences133–129 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences129–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences122–118 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences118–114 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences114–110 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences110–107 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences107–103 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences103–99 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences99–95 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences95–92 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences204 Mya92 Mya

4 occurrences of Hylaeobatis 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

4 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

2 formations

Continental Intercalaire — 28.53°N, 9.05°EHythe — 51.24°N, 0.05°W

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The named rock units Hylaeobatis 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.

Hylaeobatis and its relatives

Early Cretaceous

Where Hylaeobatis and its relatives were recorded in the Early Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

29 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 4 sites for Hylaeobatis, 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

Each of the 4 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 Hylaeobatis was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia and 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 Hylaeobatis, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Hylaeobatis 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.

Keep going

What may have been alongside itPtychodontidae through timeFormations of the Early CretaceousThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Woodward 1916