Isurus sillimanii
No picture of Isurus sillimanii 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 sillimanii, 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 6.7 million years on record.
Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 20.45 Mya and 13.82 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.
3 occurrences of Isurus sillimanii on record, most of them in the Miocene. 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
3 occurrences- Miocene100%
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
- Calvert Formation · Chesapeake Group3
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The named rock units Isurus sillimanii has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Isurus sillimanii and its relatives
MioceneWhere Isurus sillimanii and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
45 taxa- Metaxytherium crataegense2 sites
- Orycterocetus crocodilinus2 sites
- Physogaleus contortus2 sites
- Schizodelphis barnesi2 sites
- Schizodelphis morckhoviensis2 sites
- Testudines2 sites
- Xiphiacetus bossi2 sites
- Amphicyon1 site
- Araeodelphis natator1 site
- Archaeohippus1 site
- Astarte cuneiformis1 site
- Carcharhinus collatus1 site
- Carcharias cuspidatus1 site
- Carcharodon hastalis1 site
- Chesapecten coccymelus1 site
- Cynarctus marylandica1 site
- Desmathyus1 site
- Eurhinodelphis1 site
- Globigerina praebulloides pseudociperoensis1 site
- Globigerinoides altiaperturus1 site
- Globoquadrina altispira altispira1 site
- Hemipristis serra1 site
- Isurus desorii1 site
- Kentriodon1 site
The Paleobiology Database records 3 sites for Isurus sillimanii, 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 referencesEach of the 3 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 sillimanii 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 sillimanii, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Isurus sillimanii 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 MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Gibbes 1847)