Isurus leptodon
No picture of Isurus leptodon 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 Isurus leptodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- IsurusPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At most 6.6 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 33.9 Mya and 27.3 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
4 occurrences of Isurus leptodon on record, most of them in the Oligocene. 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- Oligocene100%
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.
Isurus leptodon and its relatives
OligoceneWhere Isurus leptodon and its relatives were recorded in the Oligocene.
Found in the same rock
44 taxa- Isurolamna gracilis3 sites
- Physogaleus latus3 sites
- Aquilofusus2 sites
- Carcharias acutissimus2 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus2 sites
- Isurus flandricus2 sites
- Thyasira2 sites
- Alvania (Arsenia)1 site
- Ancistrosyrinx volgeri1 site
- Aporrhais speciosa1 site
- Astarte1 site
- Aturia1 site
- Babylonella1 site
- Bathyarca1 site
- Bathytoma1 site
- Brachitoma behmi1 site
- Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba gibba1 site
- Crenilabium1 site
- Cuspidaria1 site
- Cyclocardia1 site
- Cymatiella1 site
- Dentalium1 site
- Eocypraea beyrichi1 site
- Euspira1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Isurus leptodon, 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- Lithostratigraphical and biostratigraphical subdivision of Tertiary deposits (Oligocene-Pliocene) in the Winterswijk-Almelo region (eastern part of the Netherlands)3
- Neue Untersuchungen an Mitteloligozänen Fischen Ungarns1
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. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.
Media and terms
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No picture of Isurus leptodon 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 Isurus leptodon, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Isurus leptodon 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 itIsurus through timeFormations of the OligoceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Agassiz 1843