Megasqualus

No picture of Megasqualus 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 Megasqualus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
SqualidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Squaliformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Squaliformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Squaliformes

Time the record covers

At least 54 million years on record.

The record covers at least 66 Mya to 11.63 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 72.2 Mya to 7.246 Mya.

Late Cretaceous — about 2 of 12 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 12 occurrencesPaleoceneEocene — about 1 of 12 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 12 occurrencesMiocene — about 7 of 12 occurrencesMiocene73–71 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences71–69 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences69–67 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences67–64 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences62–60 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences58–55 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences55–53 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences53–51 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences51–49 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences49–46 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences24–22 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences22–19 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences19–17 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences17–15 Mya — about 1 occurrence15–13 Mya — about 2 occurrences13–10 Mya — about 1 occurrence10–8.2 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences8.2–5.9 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences66 Mya11.63 Mya73 Mya6 Mya

12 occurrences of Megasqualus 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

12 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

10 formations

Waipara Greensand — 43.05°S, 172.62°EWaipara Greensand — 43.12°S, 172.48°ETor — 55.32°N, 12.44°ETor — 54.97°N, 12.55°EJewett — 35.49°N, 118.85°WMontesano — 46.98°N, 121.93°WTemblor — 35.47°N, 118.91°WWajimazaki — 37.40°N, 136.90°EHigashi-innai — 37.29°N, 137.13°ESuso — 37.12°N, 137.95°EKalinino — 52.51°N, 46.58°EAkeyo — 35.38°N, 137.25°E

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The named rock units Megasqualus has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Megasqualus and its relatives

Miocene

Where Megasqualus and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.

Found in the same rock

196 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 12 sites for Megasqualus, 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

8 references

Each of the 12 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 Megasqualus 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 Megasqualus, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Megasqualus was found in Smithsonian Open Access and Sketchfab.

MorphoSource 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 itSqualidae through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Herman 1982