Misrichthys

No picture of Misrichthys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none. Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Misrichthys itself, so it was not used. 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 Misrichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
CarcharhinidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Life habit
nektonicPBDB, for Carcharhiniformes
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Carcharhiniformes

Time the record covers

At most 15 million years on record.

Every occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 48.07 Mya and 33.9 Mya, and nothing in the dating separates them, so that window is what the record shows rather than a span.

Eocene — about 22 of 22 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 22 occurrences48–48 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–47 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences47–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–46 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences46–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–45 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences45–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–44 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences44–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–43 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences43–42 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences42–41 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences41–41 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences41–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–37 Mya — about 2 occurrences37–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–36 Mya — about 2 occurrences36–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–35 Mya — about 2 occurrences35–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–34 Mya — about 2 occurrences34–33 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences48.6 Mya33.4 Mya

22 occurrences of Misrichthys on record, most of them in the Eocene. 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

22 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

Gehannam — 29.32°N, 30.14°EGehannam — 29.32°N, 30.17°EGehannam — 29.30°N, 30.05°EBirket Qarun — 29.27°N, 30.02°EBirket Qarun — 29.45°N, 30.36°EBirket Qarun — 29.48°N, 30.62°EBirket Qarun — 29.30°N, 30.06°ESamlat — 23.36°N, 16.03°WWadi Garawi — 29.99°N, 31.09°EWadi Garawi — 29.08°N, 31.26°EGar Gehannam — 29.32°N, 30.15°EQasr el-Sagha — 29.60°N, 30.67°EDaba'a — 29.16°N, 27.43°EQasr El Sagha — 28.82°N, 29.14°EElQurn — 29.97°N, 31.14°EQasr ElSagha — 29.32°N, 30.05°E

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The named rock units Misrichthys has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Misrichthys and its relatives

Eocene

Where Misrichthys and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

106 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 15 sites for Misrichthys, 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

Each of the 22 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 Misrichthys was found. Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.

Wikipedia has a picture filed under this name, but nothing tied it to Misrichthys itself, so it was not used.

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 Misrichthys, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.

No 3D scan of Misrichthys 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 itCarcharhinidae through timeFormations of the EoceneThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Case and Cappetta 1990