Misrichthys stromeri

Misrichthys stromeri

Yale Peabody Museum · CC0 · via GBIF. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
MisrichthysPBDB
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 21 of 21 occurrencesEoceneOligocene — about 0 of 21 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 0.3 occurrences40–40 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences40–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–39 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences39–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–38 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences38–37 Mya — about 1 occurrence37–37 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

21 occurrences of Misrichthys stromeri 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

21 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 stromeri has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Misrichthys stromeri and its relatives

Eocene

Where Misrichthys stromeri and its relatives were recorded in the Eocene.

Found in the same rock

90 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 14 sites for Misrichthys stromeri, 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

6 references

Each of the 21 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 content1

Picture of Misrichthys stromeri

Source
GBIF
Credit
Yale Peabody Museum
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

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

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