Lamna apiculata
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- LamnaPBDB
- Diet
- carnivorePBDB, for Lamniformes
- Life habit
- nektonicPBDB, for Lamniformes
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Lamniformes
Time the record covers
At least 56 million years on record.
The record covers at least 72.2 Mya to 15.98 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 83.6 Mya to 0 Mya.
15 occurrences of Lamna apiculata 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
15 occurrences- Late Cretaceous7%
- Paleocene1%
- Eocene16%
- Oligocene28%
- Miocene48%
- Plioceneunder 1%
- Pleistoceneunder 1%
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
11 formations
- Jan Juc Formation2
- Buccleuch Formation1
- Morgan Limestone Formation1
- Mannum Formation1
- Tortachilla Limestone Formation1
- Blanche Point Marl Formation1
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The named rock units Lamna apiculata 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.
Lamna apiculata and its relatives
MioceneWhere Lamna apiculata and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
187 taxa- Oxyrhina minuta5 sites
- Isurus4 sites
- Isurus retroflexus4 sites
- Odontaspis incurva4 sites
- Carcharias contortidens3 sites
- Carcharias cuspidatus3 sites
- Carcharias macrotus3 sites
- Carcharias taurus3 sites
- Isurus desori3 sites
- Isurus desorii3 sites
- Odontaspis attenuata3 sites
- Striatolamia macrota3 sites
- Carcharodon hastalis2 sites
- Carcharoides totuserratus2 sites
- Cetacea2 sites
- Cetotheriidae2 sites
- Heterodontus cainozoicus2 sites
- Lamna compressa2 sites
- Mammalodon2 sites
- Mammalodon colliveri2 sites
- Myliobatis2 sites
- Mysticeti2 sites
- Odontoceti2 sites
- Otodus (Carcharocles) angustidens2 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Lamna apiculata, 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
7 references- Fossil Elasmobranch teeth of South Australia and their stratigraphic distribution4
- New or little-known fossils in the National Museum, Part XXVII.-Some Cainozoic fish remains, with a revision of the group3
- Fossil fish remains from the Tertiaries of Australia3
- Descriptions and Revisions of the Cretaceous and Tertiary Fish-remains of New Zealand2
- Cetacean fossils from the Lower Oligocene of South Australia1
- Fossile haifischzahne und saugetierreste von felsoestergaly, im Komitate Nograd1
- On fossil-fish remains from the Tertiary and Cretaceo-Tertiary formations of New Zealand1
Each of the 15 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
Media content0
No picture of Lamna apiculata 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 Lamna apiculata, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Lamna apiculata 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.
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What may have been alongside itLamna through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Agassiz 1838)